inflection

1 “So you went looking for a myth and found a man,” he said without inflection, without looking up.

2 The part could still use more varied inflection than it’s given here.

3 The person was probably guilty of using up-talk, or speaking with rising inflection, usually tacked on at the end of a sentence.

4 She read the lines with an upward inflection.

5 They had the same East Coast inflection to their speech.

6 On its own, this economic-disaster narrative would be a sharp, if polemical, cautionary tale, an indictment of American life at an inflection point.

7 Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’”

8 But the narrator’s attention to the subtlest inflections of communication is not merely a personality trait; it’s the central qualification for her job: She’s an interpreter working at the World Court.

9 In the voice-over booth, there were so many choices we could make in the inflection, and it’s very subtle.

10 That’s an inflection point — when somebody cares enough and is invested enough to try to meet you halfway.

11 The voice, an unfamiliar mixture of Australian and Dutch inflections, came from the tall and thin but muscular man now walking toward me in khaki shorts and a Bahama shirt.

12 Parker Sawyers, the actor who plays Barack Obama in the film, said he started off with a "strong impersonation" of the president, but then let the mannerisms and speech inflections of his character come naturally.

13 There was a generous dose of plangent inflections to his hotheaded exchanges, but also instances of lovely mezza voce in expressions of tenderness.

14 The film’s premiere came smack in the middle of an inflection point for Russia.

15 His odd alien inflections turn what could be throwaway lines into meaningful, often hilarious moments.

16 Gardiner takes over the 32-year-old company, which operates two performance spaces in Arlington’s Village at Shirlington, at a tumultuous inflection point.

17 The title track mixes steel guitar – an instrument Sakamoto taught himself before recording the album -- Hawaiian melodic inflections and Space Age atmospherics into a quietly funky groove. 

18 And the new season, crucially, does no favors to Comer, whose Emmy-winning performance as Villanelle has always been an exterior creation, a highly skilled collection of mannerisms, vocal inflections and sly mugging.

19 He might have caught the inflection of her panic.

他很可能为她的恐惧所传染.

20 She has a way of flattening even those phrases that should have inflection built into them.

1 变化形

conjugation

2 屈折变化

inflectional inflected inflect

3 屈曲

crooked curvature

4 音调变化

inflectional stop

5 拐点

knee inflection point

6 转调

modulate

7 弯曲

curvous tortuose tortile strombuliform round curved reflex skew crooked bent kinky tortuous curving scrolled snaky anfractuous sinuate flexional inflective tipsily agley flexuosity tortility set turn wind loop bend twist sweep turning buckle warp sinus winding curvature flexion swerve bight flexure crookedness tipsiness sinuosity flection incurve circumvolution anfractuosity spring yield curve curl crook incurvate circumflect embow start hook lean bow flex twists and turns game replicate sinuous askew circumflex aquiline nod swirl crinkle arch limpen fold inflect curly curvy torturous bowing hooked bowed contorted flexural bended inflectional thrawn wriggly waggly flexuous Agee akimbo give crank distortion meander contortion tortuosity crankle knee sag quirk cast angle ramp stoop

8 曲折

tortuose parti-colored quirky twisty meandering labyrinthine bendy flexural labyrinthian vermiculate anfractuous snakish labyrinthic tortuously intorsion turn wind twist winding deflection sinuosity anfractuosity circumflex twists and turns the ins and outs crinkum-crankum indirect oblique tortuous sinuous circuitous inflectional inflective meandrous movement node crank tortuosity nodus

9 曲折变化

inflected inflectional inflective

10 变曲

buckle inflect

11 抑扬

inflectional tonetic inflective tune modulation the rise and fall

12 后缀

suffix

13 屈折

refractional refringent refractive inflectional flection refract inflect

14 字形变化

inflectional

15 曲折点

twist

16 词尾变化

inflectional declension inflect flexion