| 释义 |
rhapsode|ˈræpsəʊd|
[ad. Gr. ῥαψῳδός, f. ῥάπτειν to stitch + ᾠδή song, ode.]
= rhapsodist 2.
1834H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (ed. 2) 95 These rhapsodes were indigent persons, who gained their livelihood by reciting the Homeric poetry. 1846Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 173 The expulsion of the rhapsodes from Sicyôn, by the despot Cleisthenês in the time of Solôn. 1907T. W. Allen in Class. Quart. I. 135 The rhapsode, Socrates says, should also interpret his poet.
transf.1867Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 116 There has been since Chaucer no second teller of tales, no second rhapsode, comparable to the first. |