[mass noun]the action of emphasizing something 着重,强调 the accentuation of the Treasury's currency policy. 强调财政部的货币政策。 ■the prominence of a thing relative to a norm (比正常的)突出 a condition with accentuation of female characteristics. 女性特征被强化的状况。 ■the pattern of relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance (短语或话语中)重读法;重音法
语源
late 15th cent.: in early use from medieval Latin accentuatio(n-); in later use (early 19th cent.) from accentuate