ev'ry

限定词 det.
中文释义
英 /ɛvɹi/    美 /ɛvɹi/

英文释义

限定词 det.
  1. Contraction of every. abbreviation,alt-of,contraction,poetic
    — America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw; Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!

词源

Every used to be a trisyllabic word, and it was therefore at times necessary to replace the second e with an apostrophe to pronounce the word as two syllables for poetic reasons.
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