alphabet

UK:  ['ælfəbet]

US:  [ˈælfəˌbɛt]

复数：alphabets  

n.

1.字母;字母表

1 . users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet.
用户分配在线地址的机构于上周五宣布，已批准互联网域名使用除拉丁语外的世界其它文字。

2 . Assigning Chinese names is no easy task. Because Chinese has no alphabet, each syllable must be approximated with a character.
给外国人做中文名并非易事，因为中文没有字母表，一个音节必须与其近音的汉字相对应。

3 . She'd been telling me for weeks, one letter at a time on the cardboard alphabet chart I'd made, that she was ready to die.
连续好几周，她在我自己用纸板做的字母表上，一个字母一个字母地拼出句子，告诉我，她已经准备好迎接死神的到来。

4 . The effect was discovered in studies done in the 1980s in which people rated how much they liked each of the letters of the alphabet.
该效应是在20世纪80年代的一次研究中发现的，人们为字母表中自己喜欢的字母打分。

5 . Now she'll learn to stand in line . . . and wait by the alphabet for her name to be called.
现在她会学习排队。。。等待按照字母的顺序叫到她的名字。