accentuate
accentuate 英 [əkˈsentʃueɪt] 美 [ækˈsɛntʃuˌet]
vt. 强调；重读
进行时:accentuating 过去式:accentuated 过去分词:accentuated 第三人称单数:accentuates
- To accentuate something is to emphasize it. If you use a lot of emphasis to describe part of a meal, as in "the steak was SOOO good, and I liked the salad too," you "accent" what "-u" "-ate," or accentuate, the highlight of the meal — the steak.
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- vt. 强调；重读
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1. Then accentuate them as you dress to go out.
你打扮出门时强调一下这些特点。
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2. The lighting wall serves to accentuate the nature of the material and interfuses modern technology and light.
照明墙是用来强调材料的自然性，它也融合了现代技术与灯光。
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3. Strauss-Kahn knows all this, of course. But the Daejon meeting was an opportunity to accentuate the positive and not to dwell -- too much at least -- on the past.
施特劳斯-卡恩当然明了所有这些问题.但大田会议毕竟是一个强调积极面,而不必太纠结于历史的机会.
- accentuate (v.) 1731, "pronounce with an accent," from Medieval Latin accentuatus, past participle of accentuare "to accent," from Latin accentus (see accent (n.)). Figurative meaning "emphasize, place an accent or emphasis on" is recorded from 1865.
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