expressive

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a. 表达的, 富于表情的

发音

UK /ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/
其它 /ɛkˈspɹæsɛv/
CA /ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/
US /ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/
CA /ɛkˈspɹɛsɪv/
US /ɛkˈspɹɛsɪv/
AU /ɪkˈspɹesɪv/
NZ /əkˈspɹesəv/

词形变化

expressives 复数 expressives more expressive 比较级 most expressive 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

表现的；有表现力的；表达…的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.

    语言学

    Consider the case of expressives, where no prior knowledge of the speaker’s attitudes are required to interpret the utterance. In (43) ["That jerk Alexa keeps making me look bad"], Steve does not need to know (and in fact has no prior knowledge of) anything relating to Siri’s attitudes towards Alexa to interpret that Siri has a negative attitude about Alexa. It is the expressive that jerk that implies the negative attitude.

  2. 2.

    A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.

    语言学

    I examine the valency of expressives, a class of ideophones in Mundari, comparing their behaviors as predicates to those of reduplicated verb forms.

adj. B2
  1. 1.

    Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

    expressive dancing

  2. 2.

    Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.

    语言学
  3. 3.

    Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.

    计算机 工程 数学

    A programming language that is Turing complete is more expressive than one that is not.

词汇关系

形容词

近义相关 2

communicative communicatory

相关短语

expressive language expressive aphasia 表达性失语

词源

From Middle French expressif.

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