inflections

英 [ɪnˈflɛkʃənz]

美 [ɪnˈflɛkʃənz]

n.  (尤指词尾的)屈折变化; 语调的抑扬变化
inflection的复数

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 inflexion


• N-VAR 变音;转调;语调的抑扬变化
  Aninflectionin someone's voice is a change in its tone or pitch as they are speaking.
  1. The man's voice was devoid of inflection...
     那人的声音缺少抑扬变化。
  2. 'Seb?' he said, with a rising inflection.
     “是塞伯吗？”他扬声问道。
• (词形的)屈折变化;屈折形式
  In grammar, aninflectionis a change in the form of a word that shows its grammatical function, for example a change that makes a noun plural or makes a verb into the past tense.

双语例句

• More than 70 per cent of bosses claim that the rising trend among Britons-especially teenagers-of adding inflections to the ends of sentences is particularly annoying.
  超过70%的老板认为在英国人（尤其是青少年）中，在句末加上一些曲折变化越来越流行，这实在是让人不胜其烦。
• Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
  说话者怎样表达行为或状态的动词变形。
• This paper elucidates mainly how to extract the pitch signals from speech sounds and how to indicate the pitch inflections by curves, and discusses further the characteristics of the pitch curves in Standard Chinese.
  本文着重说明如何从语音中提取音高讯号，以及如何以曲线形式表示音高变化，然后讨论普通话声调音高曲线的特性。
• Inflections on Yuanpei Cai's Rational Understanding of Contemporary China's Debate on Ethical Culture
  蔡元培对近代中国道德文化之争的理性回答及其启示
• The simplified version contains shorter utterances, simpler syntax than what appeared in the baseline passages, delete sentence elements or morphological inflections, and prefer canonical word order.
  句法简化删除一些句子成分和形态变化，倾向于使用标准语序，比原文含有更多简单句或短句。
• While Uyghur and Chinese first person plural pronouns and inflections may seem simple, they are in fact the starting point of communication, and express the relationships between people, reflect the thought, feelings, and eloquence of the speaker.
  在维吾尔语和汉语中第一人称复数看似简单，但它却是交际与交流的起点，表示着人与人之间的关系，反映着说话人的思想感情，文化修养。
• The author will compare with the two constructions from degree of grammaticalization, loss of inflections, competition and word order four aspects.
  作者从语法化程度，曲折形式的脱落，竞争机制以及词序等四个方面进行对比研究。
• Changing Inflections of English
  英语屈折形式的演变
• Characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions.
  以用屈折来表示语法差异为特点。
• Inflections of Controversy about National Cultural Resources
  从民族文化资源之争引发的思考