| 单词 | locomotive rhythm |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocomotive rhythm locomotive rhythm n. (a) Physiology (in the terminology of Alexander Bain) the regular combination of movements which allow progressive motion to take place (now rare); (b) a driving, regular rhythm that mimics or is suggestive of the sound of a moving railway locomotive. ΚΠ 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. iv. 262 The locomotive rhythm involves all the arrangements that I regard as primitive in the class of combined movements of succession, apart from those organic movements of heart, lungs, and intestines above alluded to. 1904 R. G. Boone Sci. of Educ. 156 In walking there is what has been called locomotive rhythm, that requires and accompanies the co-ordinating of many organs and the alternating of the lower limbs in movement. 1946 R. Prokofieva tr. I. V. Nestyev Sergei Prokofiev i. iv. 69 The line runs from the rigid, locomotive rhythms of the Toccata, Op. 11, to the harsh images expressive of modern city life in Le Pas d'acier and the Toccata of the Fifth Concerto. 2010 W. Friedwald Biogr. Guide Great Jazz & Pop Singers 54/1 A rocking, steady locomotive rhythm that suggests the Daybreak Express plowing down the Yazoo delta where the Southern meets the Dog. < as lemmas |
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