downdrift

英式音标：['daʊndrɪft]

美式音标：['daʊndrɪft]

词汇分类：《剑桥语言百科全书》专业词汇

词义：

n.

往下漂流，逐渐下降；

英英释义

Downdrift

In phonetics, downdrift is the cumulative lowering of pitch over time due to interactions among tones, called downstep, in a tonal language. It is distinct from the general lowering of the pitch during prosodic contours of a tonal or non-tonal language.

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用法：

权威例句

Downdrift, downstep, and declination

The Development of Downdrift Erosion

Inlet Sediment Bypassing to a Downdrift Washover Plain

The Development of Downdrift Erosion: An Update of Paper in JCR, Vol. 11(4)

Universals of downdrift: Their phonetic basis and significance for a theory of tone

Downdrift coarsening of beach foreshore sediments at tidal inlets: An example from the coast of New Jersey

Evolution of Downdrift-Offset Tidal Inlets: a Model Based on the Brigantine Inlet System of New Jersey

Spit Growth and Downdrift Erosion: Results of Longshore Transport Modeling and Morphologic Analysis at the Cape Lookout Cuspate Fore...

Rates and mechanisms of shoreface progradation and retreat downdrift of the Amazon river mouth

Neoichnological activities of endobenthic invertebrates in downdrift coastal Ganges delta complex, India: Their significance in trac...

造句：

1. The West is stingy with aid.

西方在援助上有点吝啬。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Don't be so stingy with the money!

用钱不要那样小手小脚!

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3. Don't be so stingy!

不要那么吝啬!

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. After the death of his stingy wife, Edward loosened up a great deal.

爱德华在他吝啬的妻子死后, 用钱大方多了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. Winston was not a stingy man.

温斯顿不是个小气之人。

来自辞典例句

[ stingy 造句 ]