Aspirate

(noun.) a consonant pronounced with aspiration.

(verb.) suck in (air).

(verb.) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds.

(verb.) remove as if by suction; 'aspirate the wound'.

厄玛编辑

• In England, Angleterre, England, We Aspirate the “H,” and We Say “Horse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Allow me the H-onour,' said the gentleman with the whiskers, presenting his dexter hand, and aspirating the h. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

杰拉尔德编辑