w

['dʌblju:]

W: not in the Roman alphabet, but the Modern English sound it represents is close to the devocalized consonant expressed by Roman -U- or -V-. In Old English, this originally was written -uu-, but by 8c. began to be expressed by the runic character wyn (Kentish wen), which looked like this: ƿ (the character is a late addition to the online font set and doesn't display properly on many computers, so it's something like a combination of lower-case -p- and a reversed -y-). In 11c., Norman scribes introduced -w-, a ligatured doubling of Roman -u- which had been used on the continent for the Germanic "w" sound, and wyn disappeared c. 1300. -W- is not properly a letter in the modern French alphabet, and it is used there only in borrowed foreign words, such as wagon, weekend, Western, whisky, wombat.

1. To close your document, press CTRL+W on your keyboard.: 关闭文件时要同时按键盘上的CTRL键和W键。

2. George W. Bush carried the state with 56 percent of the vote.: 乔治·W.布什在该州以56%的得票率获胜。

3. Ayer started N. W. Ayer & Son in 1869, naming the firm for his father.: 艾尔在1869年成立了N.W.艾尔父子公司，公司以他父亲的名字命名。

4. The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off.: 空缺的世界拳击理事会次轻量级头衔被取消了。

5. W. Somerset Maugham's novel still packs an emotional punch.: 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的小说仍具有强烈的情感冲击力。