I'm talking to you...in short, monosyllabic sentences laced with disdain and contempt.

我来和你说话...全用简短的单音节词加以轻蔑和鄙视做点缀。

Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.

美国人则完完全全地接受了个新术语，但很英国使用者却不喜欢aluminum个名字，指出其破坏了由sodium, calcium, and strontium建立起的-ium的形式，因此他们在aluminum的基础上加了一个元音和一个音节。

And it's restricted to the beginning of syllables.

它被限制在音节的开头。

You always put too much emphasis on the last syllable.

你老是把最后一个音节读得太重。

Babies pick up rhythms, and we all use it to help identify syllables and words.

婴儿婴儿可以毫不费力地学会节拍，我们都用节拍来辨析音节和单词。

OK, so we actually lose a syllable there.

对，所以我们实际上少了一个音节啦里。

Some languages, like Japanese, have few distinct sounds and tight rules on how syllables may be structured, so that the number of possible syllables is low (think ka, ru, to, etc).

有些语言，比如日语，很少有清晰的发音，音节的结构也有严的规则，所以可能的音节数量很低(比如ka, ru, to等等)。

The more parents engaged in one-on-one baby talk, the more the baby babbled—which is a precursor to word production—and the more words they produced at age two.

父母用一对一的方式和婴儿交谈越，后者咿呀学语就会—些都是词语构建的前体音节—并且些孩子们在2岁左右就能说的单词。

There are two syllables in the word " button" .

“button”个词有两个音节。

I tried again, telling the tale of our adventures, clearly articulating my every syllable, and not leaving out a single detail.

我重新讲述我们遭遇的经过，每个音节都念得清楚，一点细节都没有遗漏。

And haiku are super short poems, 17 syllable.

俳句是超短诗，有17个音节。

The word “painting, ” for instance, has two syllables. The stress is on the first syllable.

例如，单词 painting 有两个音节，重音在第一个音节上。

Spanish, however, is a syllable-timed language where each syllable is given more equal timing.

西班牙语则是以音节为基础的节奏，每个音节的时间分配比较均等。

How many U.S. states have names with only one syllable?

美国有少州其名称只有一个音节？

It’s a two-syllable word with stress on the first syllable.

是一个双音节的单字，重音放在第一个音节.

So sometimes the line in the script comes up a little bit short and we have to add a few syllables to make it fit the flap.

有时剧本台词太短，我们就得加几个音节来匹配口型。

Of the 220 words, 172. or 78%, are only one syllable and often they come in a rhythmic series like a volley of jabs ending with one of his buzz words.

在段220个字的演讲中，有172个字也就是78%的演讲内容是单音节词，他的开头通常充满韵律感，就好比向观众挥出一连串刺拳，再以他常用的词汇结尾。

So, with the word 'cement', the verb and the noun, we stress the second syllable.

对于“cement”个单词，无论是用作动词和名词，都要重读第二个音节。

Well, he used the syllables from United.

他用了United个词的音节。

For the first syllable 'lam, ' we can use " lamb" - the animal, or " lamp" - the thing that generates light, as the substitute word.

第一个音节" lam" ，我们可以用 " lamb" —动物小羊，或是 " lamp" — 会发亮的那个东西，来当作替代的单词。