ev'ry

发音

UK /ɛvɹi/
US /ɛvɹi/

释义与例句

det.
  1. 1.

    Contraction of every.

    诗歌

    America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

    Ev’ry night when ev’rybody has fun, here am I sitting all on my own.

词源

Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.

来源：wiktionary