词汇 | zee |
释义 | zee noun[ C ] USuk /ziː/ us /ziː/ the last letter of the English alphabet; Z: 字母Z(英文字母表中的最后一个字母) As far as "zee vs. zed" goes, we Canadians still say "zed." 至于字母Z读作“zee”还是“zed”,我们加拿大人还是说“zed”。 Compare zed Tianna defiantly pronounces the last letter of the alphabet in the American fashion, "zee." It was left to a DJ guest to point out quietly that Jay Z, the rapper that he was talking about, was pronounced "zee" not "zed". "We are looking forward to the fact that she can spell 'colour' with a 'u' and we do not have to say 'zee' any more," said Robin Kent, a British expatriate who is moving his eight-year-old daughter Grace from an American school. The name of the letter Z is pronounced zed in British English as opposed to zee in American English, though the words are normally only spelled out when noting the difference. Letters of alphabets aitch alphabet alphabetic alphabetical alphabetically alphabetization alphanumeric alphanumerically B, b I, i iota J, j K, k kappa psi Q, q rho S, s sigma zeta Examples of zeezee Generally, the absent "zee" -rhyme is not missed, although some children use a "zee" pronunciation in the rhyme which they would not use elsewhere. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The commonest call is a nasal "zee, zee, zee", but the notes of the bird evidently vary considerably. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This bird's song is a buzzy "tik tuk zee", resembling the sound made by a grasshopper. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The song of the male bird is a buzzed "zee-zee-zee-bzz-zee", somewhat similar to that of its eastern relative, the black-throated green warbler. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In 1991, when those twelve-year-olds were twenty-five, another survey showed that 39 percent of twenty to twenty-five year olds said "zee". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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