syllables
n. [语]音节（syllable 的复数）
例句
We children called her Oma, accenting both syllables.
我们这些孩子叫她，两个音节都重读。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
She stresses the syllables as though teaching a child.
她重读这些音节，像教小孩似的。
They have to distinguish between words in upper and lower-case letters or even harder, they had to count the number of syllables in different words.
他们必须区分大写和小写的单词，或者更难的是，他们必须数出不同单词的音节数。
