retroflex

英 ['retrəfleks] 美 ['retrəfleks]

• adj. 反曲的；翻转的；卷舌的
• n. [语]卷舌音

英英释义

Adjective:

1. bent or curved backward

2. pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate

Verb:

1. bend or turn backward

2. articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate;

   "Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Taiwan's Mandarin force is not without retroflex?
   台湾的国语力是不是没有卷舌音？
2. One of these features is the appearance of retroflex consonants in Indian languages, both Indo-European and Dravidian.
   这些特征之一是出现在印度语言里的卷舌音，印欧语系和德拉威语系都存在。

近反义词

【近义词】

• cacuminal 卷舌音的
• replicate 复制
• retroflexed 反曲的(翻转的)...