单词 | to beat time |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat time 32. to beat time: to mark musical time by beating a drum, by tapping with the hands, feet, a stick, etc., by striking the air with a baton; also figurative to keep time with. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous [verb (intransitive)] > keep time with to keep stotc1590 to keep stroke16.. to keep time1658 to beat time1694 time1830 synchronize1867 simultane1880 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (intransitive)] > keep time > beat time to beat time1694 1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 22 With pride to prance; And (rightly manag'd) equal time to beat. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 157. ⁋2 The Part rather of one who beats the Time, than of a Performer. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxiii. 535 The leaders of choruses beat time sometimes with the hand, and sometimes with the foot. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 105 A love-song I had somewhere read,..Beat time to nothing in my head. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline iv. 52 And anon with his wooden shoes beat time to the music. < as lemmas |
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