emphasize
- IPA[ˈɛmfəsʌɪz]
英式
- give special importance or value to (something) in speaking or writing；lay stress on (a word or phrase) when speaking
verb: emphasize, 3rd person present: emphasizes, gerund or present participle: emphasizing, past tense: emphasized, past participle: emphasized
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動詞
- 1. give special importance or value to (something) in speaking or writing they emphasize the need for daily, one-to-one contact between parent and child I would emphasize that I am not an economist 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. lay stress on (a word or phrase) when speaking his father emphasized the wrong words in his sentence 同義詞
- 3. make (something) more clearly defined a hip-length jacket which emphasized her shape
- place emphasis on (something) again: recent empirical findings re-emphasize that broad-based economic growth
Oxford American Dictionary
- reduce the importance or prominence given to (something): commentators tend to de-emphasize parental culpability
Oxford Dictionary
- reduce the importance or prominence given to (something): the reform de-emphasized central planning and placed more power in the association of socialized industries
Oxford American Dictionary
- place emphasis on (something) again: the latter document re-emphasized the need for a national curriculum
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈemfəˌsīz]
美式
- give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing: he jabbed a finger into the tabletop to emphasize his point he emphasized that the drug works in only 30 percent of cases
Oxford American Dictionary
