one of the letters ‘a', ‘e', ‘i', ‘o', or ‘u', used for representing these sounds. In English, ‘y' is sometimes considered to be a vowel. The other letters are calledconsonants. 元音字母(指用于代表元音发音的字母a, e, i, o, u;英语中的y有时也被认为是元音字母)
ADJECTIVE | VERB + VOWEL | VOWEL + NOUNADJECTIVE➤long, short長元音;短元音▸➤open, rounded開元音;圓唇元音➤back, front後元音;前元音▸➤weak弱元音▸➤flat窄口元音▸➤final尾元音▸➤accented, stressed重讀元音▸➤unaccented, unstressed非重讀元音VERB + VOWEL➤begin with, contain, end in, end with以元音開始;包含元音;以元音結尾➤pronounce發元音◇Americans pronounce this vowel like the one in 'may'.美國人發這個元音,就像發 may 這個單詞中的元音一樣。VOWEL + NOUN➤sound元音➤length元音音長▸➤system元音體系