| 单词 | homophone |
| 例句 | As a homophone it also brings to mind “brutes” — brute force, brutality. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Are you good at phrases that incorporate complicated Mandarin homophones? Is having sex six times in six days the secret to work-life balance? 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “Nine” in Mandarin is a homophone of the word “long”. Is having sex six times in six days the secret to work-life balance? 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z It is a homophone for “heart” and “new.” Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s the name of a stretch of road, and it’s also a homophone: Everyone here is in some kind of straits. ‘The Straights’ Review: On the Road With No Sense of Direction 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The Nomen Global Language Center, a Utah language school that teaches English to non-native speakers, has reportedly fired a blogger for teaching students about homophones. Blogger allegedly fired from language school for teaching students about “homophonia” 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As you may remember from grade school, homophones are words that are pronounced the same way but ultimately have different meanings, and often, different spellings, like “be” and “bee” or “none” and “nun.” Blogger allegedly fired from language school for teaching students about “homophonia” 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The letters are full of puns, homophones and word play using words that share the Indo-European roots of “page” and “screen.” Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z Because the Japanese word for “toad” is a homophone for the phrase “return home,” netsuke of toads on sandals became a beloved souvenir for travelers, including those visiting the important Ise Jingu shrine. No pockets? No problem. See how Japanese men carried personal items on their kimonos. 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z When the principal calls her Melanie, Wang’s heroine adopts three of her Mandarin name’s homophones: Mist, who can be invisible; Basket, carrier of her parents’ dreams; and Blue, her truest self. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Johnson reveled in the misapprehensions occasioned by typos, homophones and non sequiturs. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z So here you are, purists: “homophones” it is. Style Invitational Week 1333: Check your (homo)phones 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Around its immaculately detailed, exuberantly bulbous surface swim a whitefish, a mackerel, a freshwater perch and a carp — four fish whose Chinese names are homophones for a phrase meaning “honest and incorruptible.” 5,000 Years of Asian Art in 1 Single, Thrilling Conversation 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Sadly for lovers of homophones, said episode is not set in a north-western region of France. Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing? 2011-01-08T00:05:57Z And I’m so with him on homophones; I’ve been reading too many things lately that mix up “further” and “farther.” REVIEW: The Fun in "Weird Al" Yankovic's New Album, Mandatory Fun 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The words wright and write are homophones, a phonological coincidence. Do not dismiss playwrights as mere content providers 2013-06-19T07:00:00Z “The Chinese word for magpie is a homophone for the word for happiness,” Mr. Keverne said. Antiques: Prized Chinese Crafts, Delicate and Detailed 2011-01-27T21:37:59Z It’s also not especially theatrical, as there are no characters or story beyond what’s necessary to set up the seven games viewers are asked to play, involving Spoonerisms, homophones, anagrams and the like. Review: What’s ‘Inside the Box’? A Rewarding (Rewording) Time 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The Chinese word for “arrive” is a close homophone to the word for “upside-down,” so the turned insignia adorns homes as a wishful harbinger of good luck: Fortune arrives. D.C.’s Chinatown has only 300 Chinese Americans left — and fighting to stay 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s not surprising that someone who named her nursery using a provocative homophone would advocate a bit of daring. For a longer peony season, think beyond the typical pink and white 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z For more information about homophones, see Words and Language. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Students in the small, remote community of Estancia, N.M., were enthusiastically engaged in a vocabulary lesson, enunciating words with a “bossy r,” as well as homophones and homonyms, and spelling them on white boards. New Twist in Pandemic’s Impact on Schools: Substitutes in Camouflage 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z But the WHO decided a homophone for “new” would be too confusing. With coronavirus variants, world gets crash course on the Greek alphabet 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z It was also a homophone for “turn,” which fed into the group’s idea of “turning around and moving forward to face the challenges head-on,” according to Tern’s website. Tern HSD P9 review: the everything e-bike 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Chinese leader Xi Jinping often calls for a "people's war" against the virus, and state media refer to the containment effort as "zhanyi," a Chinese pun that is a homophone with "military campaign." In China’s ‘war’ on coronavirus, hospitals turn away other patients — with dire results 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Here are some common homophones and their meanings: Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z It has a large vocabulary and a rich stock of homophones from which puns can be made. Why English is such a great language for puns 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z If you're going to be pedantic about this, I think you mean homophones--they sound alike--and this was probably the result of a mis-transcription. Aasif Mandvi Knows How to Make America Great Again 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The ad is called “Vane” — no doubt a deliberate homophone. Ad Backing Jeb Bush Calls Marco Rubio Untrustworthy on Immigration 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It is a play on a more common homophone for job-hunting. In rapidly aging Japan, dying is big business 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z In characteristic Midwest American English words such as cot and caught are pronounced as homophones. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The song’s homophones are ho-hum, but when Isbell mentions Civil War lore, he uses a bodacious synonym for baloney. Review: Homophones, synonyms and more from Jason Isbell 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Conversely, 8, considered the luckiest number because it is a homophone for the word for prosperity, is nearly everywhere. Wealthy Chinese Buyers Head to New York’s Suburbs 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Some are pure homophone errors, including a rather embarrassing “no” for “know.” When Spell-Check Can’t Help 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z And here’s the latest batch of problems involving homophones — words that sound exactly the same but mean something altogether different. Close but Not Quite 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Wrong homophone; it was changed to “fare” in time for print. Subject, Meet Verb 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Changed in time for print to “whiles,” the homophone we wanted. Whom Goes There? 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It's a homophone of Wales, which is Harry's surname. Pass notes No 3,236: Spike Wells 2012-08-27T18:59:02Z Words alike only in spelling but not in sound, e.g. “bow,” are sometimes called homographs; and words alike only in sound but not in spelling, e.g. “meat,” “meet,” homophones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Another important step made by Young was the discovery of the use of homophones, or different symbols to represent the same letter. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z In the pursuit of his studies he also found out the existence of homophones, that is, characters having the same sound; and that phonetics were mixed up in every inscription with ideographs and representations. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z He was, however, still under the belief that they represented letters instead of syllables, and was consequently obliged to admit the existence of 'homophones.' A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z The Chinese word for “nine” is a homophone for the word “longevity.” The Bay Citizen: A Candidate for Mayor? Lee Says He Isn?t One 2011-02-20T03:34:25Z And in Chinese, the number eight is a homophone for the word for getting rich. Square Feet: When Deals Need to Pass the Feng Shui Test 2010-08-24T18:33:00Z She learned to use homophones to evade the censors. How China's internet generation broke the silence 2010-03-24T19:38:00Z Such hieroglyphs are called homophones, and they are sometimes very numerous; for instance, as many as twenty hieroglyphs had each the value of a, and h was represented by at least thirty homophones. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z The most important phonograms are the uniliteral or alphabetic signs, twenty-four in number in the Old Kingdom and without any homophones: later these were increased by homophones to thirty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In dealing with facts of such complexity as the origin and insertion of muscles, it may be needful to have free recourse to the assistance of homophones, &c. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget Science is a great maker of homophones, without respect for the poets. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary It is plain that the Greek is untranslatable into English because of the homophone. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones What seems clear about it is that the two contending pronunciations are homophones, one with latches the other with lashes. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems This discovery, and the recognition of the name Alexander, gave fourteen alphabetic signs, including homophones, with ascertained values. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Correlate the homophone of the muscle to the first pair of words, and the first pair to the second pair. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget But this is beyond the present purpose, which is merely to exhibit the tendency which this so-called degradation has to create homophones. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones When two or more words different in origin and signification are pronounced alike, whether they are alike or not in their spelling, they are said to be homophonous, or homophones of each other. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones If churn is anywhere dialectal for churr, it must have come from the common mistake of substituting a familiar for an unknown word: and this is the worst way of making homophones. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems True homophones are separate words which have, or have acquired, an illogical fortuitous identity. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones Such words are needed, and if a homophone were thus specialized in some department of life or thought, then a slight differential pronunciation would be readily adopted. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones On the other hand, the substantive beam is an example of such a false homophone as I include. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones The word homophone is not recognized by Johnson or by Richardson: Johnson under homo- has six derivatives of Herbert Spencer's favourite word homogeneous, but beside these only four other words with this Greek affix. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones Brush is a difficult homophone, and it would be useful to have one of its derivative meanings separated off as brish. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems The first essential, then, is to know the extent and nature of the mischief; and this can only be accomplished by setting out the homophones in a table before the eye. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones Homophony is between words as significant sounds, but it is needful to state that homophonous words must be different words, else we should include a whole class of words which are not true homophones. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones We have an occasional escape by using nay for no, since its homophone neigh is an unlikely neighbour; but that can serve only in one limited use of the word, and is no solution. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones This is a reckless assertion; it may be that among the languages unknown to me there are some that are as much hampered with homophones as we are. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones And we are so accustomed to homophones in English that they do not much offend us; we do not imagine their non-existence, and most people are probably unaware of their inconvenience. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones In talking with friends the common plea that I have heard for homophones is their usefulness to the punster. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones The objections to homophones are of two kinds, either scientific and utilitarian, or æsthetic. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones Otto Jespersen12 seems to think that the inconvenience of homophones is so great that a language will naturally evolve some phonetic habit to guard itself against them, although it would otherwise neglect such distinction. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones That homophones are self-destructive and tend to become obsolete. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones |
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