元音

Everywhere else, the result is a confusing fudge of strange clusters of consonants, vowels and diacritical marks.

如果用在其他地方，其结果只能是一大群混乱的，滥造的辅音，元音或者一些变音符。

A diacritical mark placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality .

某些语言里放在元音上表示特殊语音性质的发音符号。

A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation.

用来表示重读或者放在元音上表示特殊读音的发音符号。

Vowels can be written as independent letters, or by using a variety of diacritical marks which are written above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to.

元音可以写成独立的书写字母，或者是运用各种不同的区分符号来标明它们是在字音上面、下面、前面还是后面。

A diacritical mark placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound .

放在元音上标示短音的发音符号。

A diacritical mark placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound or phonetic value in pronunciation,such as?

长音一个发音符号，置于元音之上，表示长音或发音中的音值，如？

A diacritical mark placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization.

在西班牙语里放在字母n上表示鼻腭音或者在葡萄牙语里放在元音上表示鼻音化的发音符号。

Is a diphthong, and therefore is not divided.

是双元音，故不能分开。

And then you slur by dropping initial letters and diphthong s.

有时你又把单词开头的辅音和双元音含糊掉。

Is not a diphthong, and therefore the two vowels are divided.

而 ιο不是双元音，故分属不同的音节。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。