Many letters in the alphabet such as b, c, d,etc are consonants. 字母表中的许多字母像b,c,d,等等都是辅音字母。
English has 24 consonant phonemes. 英语有24个辅音音素.
Containing a consonant or consonants. 辅音的含有一个或几个辅音(字母)的
consonant
[ noun ]
a speech sound that is not a vowel
<noun.communication>
a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
involving or characterized by harmony
<adj.all>
in keeping
<adj.all> salaries agreeable with current trends plans conformable with your wishes expressed views concordant with his background
Consonant \Con"so*nant\, n. [L. consonans, -antis.] An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.
Note: Consonants are divided into various classes, as mutes, spirants, sibilants, nasals, semivowels, etc. All of them are sounds uttered through a closer position of the organs than that of a vowel proper, although the most open of them, as the semivowels and nasals, are capable of being used as if vowels, and forming syllables with other closer consonants, as in the English feeble (-b'l), taken (-k'n). All the consonants excepting the mutes may be indefinitely, prolonged in utterance without the help of a vowel, and even the mutes may be produced with an aspirate instead of a vocal explosion. Vowels and consonants may be regarded as the two poles in the scale of sounds produced by gradual approximation of the organ, of speech from the most open to the closest positions, the vowel being more open, the consonant closer; but there is a territory between them where the sounds produced partake of the qualities of both.
Note: ``A consonant is the result of audible friction, squeezing, or stopping of the breath in some part of the mouth (or occasionally of the throath.) The main distinction between vowels and consonants is, that while in the former the mouth configuration merely modifies the vocalized breath, which is therefore an essential element of the vowels, in consonants the narrowing or stopping of the oral passage is the foundation of the sound, and the state of the glottis is something secondary.'' --H. Sweet.
Consonant \Con"so*nant\, a. [L. consonans, -antis; p. pr. of consonare to sound at the same time, agree; con- + sonare to sound: cf. F. consonnant. See {Sound} to make a noise.] 1. Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.
Each one pretends that his opinion . . . is consonant to the words there used. --Bp. Beveridge.
That where much is given there shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity. --Dr. H. More.
4. Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. --T. Moore.
But all the singers were regularly foxed by their long-drawn-out lines: again and again, we waited impatiently through an extended 'Maaa' or a 'Teee' for some final consonant to reveal what word we were hearing.
Sen. Hainon Miller of Greenvill introduced the bill Monday at the urging of Mary Jo Ayres of Leland, who wants to add the chocolate dessert to the list of state-sanctioned M-words so she can help her students pronounce the consonant.
Mr. Boyd's interpretation is consonant with many of Nabokov's declared intentions, but it does tend to scant the ferocity, the imp of the perverse, that lies within much of his actual work.
As to money, our consciences allow for donations, but not too much. This picture is consonant with the much-criticised thesis adumbrated by Francis Fukuyama in a book entitled The end of history and the last man (1992).
In no sense is the behavior of these countries consonant with the reformist image that Mr. Gorbachev asks the West to accept as genuine.
This, he added, would be 'immoral'. Mrs Shephard told the conference: 'There is a tension between trying to give these tremendously motivated business people as much freedom as we can in a way which is consonant with the use of public funds'.
Remember to enunciate consonant sounds and avoid mumbling.