柯林斯詞典secondary accent (also secondary stress) 1. N (in a system of transcribing utterances recognizing three levels of stress) the accent on a syllable of a word or breath group that is weaker than the primary accent but stronger than the lack of stress (有三個層次輕重音之分的話語系統(tǒng)裡的)次重音[phonetics] →compare primary accent in the word ``agriculture'' the secondary accent falls on the third syllable 返回 secondary stress