four tones
常见例句
- Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones.
元音包括簡單音,咽音,刺耳音,氣音,而且有四個聲調。 - The "slowest" language, Mandarin, partly thanks to the four tones, has around 2000 possible syllables, far more than Japanese or Spanish.
語速最慢的漢語普通話有大約2000個音節,比日語和西班牙語多得多。 有四個音調也是普通話語速慢的部分原因。 - Not only do foreigners find it difficult to master the four tones of Mandarin, but the alien grammar and the difficulty of rote-learning thousands of words overcome all but the most diligent students.
外國人不但覺得漢語中的四聲調很難掌握,而且那些陌生的語法和死記硬背的成千上萬的漢字也讓他們頭疼,似乎衹有最勤奮的學生才學得會。 - Then students have the daunting task of learning to pronounce Mandarin, where one word can have four meanings, depending on which of four tones is used.
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