He wonders if you could put in a word for him to keep his tenancy.

他想麻烦您美言几句，让他继续住在那里。

Captain, inviting this woman into our investigation would be, in a word, idiotic.

警监，邀请那个女人加入调查用一个词形容就是愚蠢。

" No, no! Why cry out against the passions? Are they not the one beautiful thing on the earth, the source of heroism, of enthusiasm, of poetry, music, the arts, of everything, in a word" ?

" 哎！不要说不！ 为什么要反对热情？ 难道热情不是世界上唯一美丽的东西？ 不是一切美好事物的根源？ 没有热情会有英雄主义、积极性、诗歌、乐、艺术吗？"

There aren't really many rules about finding the stress in a word.

在一个单词中寻找重读并没有太多规则。

And the L-sound in English can change depending on its position in a word.

英语中的 L 可以根据其在单词中的位置而变化。

There is always one main syllable in a word that is stressed.

一个单词里总有一个主要的节是重读的。

This phenomenon of transposing or switching sounds in a word is called metathesis.

这种在单词中换位或调换的现象被称为 " 位转换" 。

No, in a word. But I'm lucky, I've got an investor, Sarah Hall.

一句话来说，不够。但我很幸运，我有个投资者，莎拉·霍尔。

He did not seem to have taken in a word Snape had said.

他似乎根本没有听清斯内普说的话。

In talking about Harvard students, many people automatically refer to Bill Gates with his dark framed glasses and a colored shirt, in a word, fashion-free.

说到哈佛学生，很多人自然想到比尔·盖茨：黑眼镜框和花衬衫，总之一句话，不时尚。

What will the war on ISIS look like in 2015? In a word, tough.

2015年同这个恐怖组织的作战会是什么样子? 一言以蔽之，那就是艰难。

They were, in a word, devoted to the technology.

一句话，他们非常这种工具制作。

The number of syllables in a word is decided by its number of vowel sounds.

一个单词中节的数量是由元的数量决定的。

In a word, No, according to a recent University of Central Florida study.

佛罗里达中央大学最近一项研究得出的结论是根本不能。

Hello! It's always a little bit hard for me to get the right pronunciation of the letter -i in a word. Is it pronounced " I" or " e" ? How do I know when to say one or the other?

你好！对我来说，要把字母i读读正确总是有点难。它读作" I" 还是" e" ？我怎么知道什么时候该说哪个？

But before we go, here's today's top tip for learning vocabulary: when you look up a word in an online dictionary, listen to the audio and try to copy the word stress.

结束之前，传授你学习词汇的妙招：当你在在线词典中查找一个单词时，听听录并试着模仿单词的重。

Patients who, in ordinary conversation, would make no allusions to certain topics or concerns, would — in a word association session — quickly let slip critical aspects of their true selves.

在普通谈话中，病人不会暗示某些话题或忧虑，而在单词联想测试中，他们会很快说出真实自我的关键方面。

Maggots are the soft-bodied, not fully developed larvae of flies or other insects. Many people feel sick by simply hearing the word " maggot, " let alone seeing them. To them, the larvae are simply, in a word, gross.

蛆虫是一种软体生物，是苍蝇或其它昆虫未发育成熟的幼虫。对大部分人来说，光是听到蛆这个词就让人恶心，更别说看到实物了。在他们看来，蛆给人就一种感觉，令人生厌。

In a word, it was Queequeg's conceit, that if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him: nothing but a whale, or a gale, or some violent, ungovernable, unintelligent destroyer of that sort.

一句话，这是奎奎格的玄想，如果一个人打定主意要活，区区疾病是无法要他的命的，只有鲸鱼、狂风，或者某些不可控制而又愚昧无知的暴力才能把他毁灭。

So when you have an N and a T in a word or at the end of words, quite often, we mute the T in Australian English and probably other dialects of English as well.

所以当你在一个单词中有 N 和 T 或者它处单词末尾时，我们经常在澳大利亚英语和其他英语方言中把这个 T 消。