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单词 metrical
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Definition of metrical in English:

metrical

adjective ˈmɛtrɪk(ə)lˈmɛtrək(ə)l
  • 1Relating to or composed in poetic metre.

    metrical translations of the Psalms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
    • Textual criticism and emendation was the order of the day for scholars, with translation, prose and verse composition, and the study of metrical forms being the staple for students.
    • This enabled him to achieve a metrical translation of sixteen plays, including all the histories, which paid sensitive respect to the nuances of form as well as to semantic meaning.
    • His position at court did not require Lawes to compose for the church, and his only surviving sacred music is a set of psalm settings, using the metrical translations of George Sandys.
    • Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter.
    • What, then, was the early modern experience of metrical rhythm?
    • This same class was also called on to organize various forms of consensus, and especially to produce laudatory verses, metrical epitaphs, and celebrations of civic life to accompany festivals and other public events.
    • He could compose in a metrical pattern that followed strict conventions.
    • Walsh's metrical translations mirrored the assonance of the originals.
    • The verse form with its metrical demands, while it aided memorization, led to greater obscurity of expression than prose composition would have entailed.
    • Other phonic features are added to the basic metrical pattern of verse, with or without rhyme.
    • Lefevere, though, very simply overstates the case regarding the relative function and desirability of rhymed, metrical translation.
    • Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse.
    • Bogan was not only a great metrical poet but one whose employment of both free verse and vers libéré provided her with enormous artistic power; she knew when, and how, to loosen out her line.
    • They consist of metrical, continuous verse (or at least mixed verse and prose) and divide not into chapters and sections but, naturally, into verses.
    • A hymn can be defined as an original composition by an author while a metrical psalm or paraphrase is an author's arrangement of an existing biblical text.
    • The rhythmic cadence of the poetry was not the iambic pentameter or other such metrical patterns but free verse with words scattered randomly across the printed page.
    • It was obvious to everyone except the old man that this was an entirely futile undertaking, and, when it was eventually published, the metrical translation of the Psalms received absolutely no acclaim whatever.
    • Bardic verse was part of an oral tradition defined by strict metrical patterns, combining original narrative with stock formulaic phrases, elaborate similes and extended digressions.
    • Like jazz, rap extravagantly syncopates a flexible rhythm against a fixed metrical beat thereby turning a traditional English folk meter into something distinctively African-American.
    Synonyms
    in verse, verse, rhythmical
  • 2Of or involving measurement.

    a metrical analysis of male and female scapulae
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Narrative folk ballads of Mexican origin typically have regular metrical features such as rhyming quatrains and use traditional imagery.
    • New and previously described material of the genus Atlantoxerus from the Aragonian type area in Spain are assigned to a single species, A. blacki, on the basis of metrical and morphological analyses.
    • One's admiration for this haunting and beautifully cadenced lament is likely to increase when we submit it to metrical analysis.
    • Wrapped in layers of philosophy, history, metrical science and astrology, Kingsbury has also given us a closer look at the central premise of Asimov's trilogy: that what men can predict, men can control.
    • He combined topological and metrical methods to attack problems of real analysis.
    • In Bogdanowicz and Owen's analysis, 45 metrical and 30 discrete-state characters in 57 extant hipposiderid species were examined.
    • Emphasize that the measure's metrical structure is of primary importance and should be solidified before the ornaments are added.
    • Has the regulation been made metrical now, or not?
    • The morphological and metrical analyses indicate that all the studied material should be assigned to a single species.
    Synonyms
    pulsing, with a steady pulse, rhythmical, measured, throbbing, beating, pulsating, cadenced, lilting, repeated, periodic, regular, steady, even, paced

Derivatives

  • metrically

  • adverb ˈmɛtrɪk(ə)liˈmɛtrək(ə)li
    • Here she breaks what is actually a metrically regular dactylic line so that the beat is undermined and countered by the line breaks: a subtle disorienting of form and expectation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I admire greatly your own translations from a wide variety of European writers: these seem to free you up metrically in certain ways, and also allow more demonstrative rhetorical gestures than you generally permit in your own writing.
      • The group then uses this metrically ambiguous unit as a hinge between the first and second main sections.
      • (Reece's ghazals are spiritually but not metrically linked to that form).
      • Here are a few metrically representative lines from one of the first popular raps.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metrikos (from metron: see metre2) + -al.

Rhymes

asymmetrical, diametrical, geometrical, symmetrical, trimetrical
 
 

Definition of metrical in US English:

metrical

adjectiveˈmetrək(ə)lˈmɛtrək(ə)l
  • 1Relating to or composed in poetic meter.

    metrical translations of the Psalms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rhythmic cadence of the poetry was not the iambic pentameter or other such metrical patterns but free verse with words scattered randomly across the printed page.
    • In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
    • He could compose in a metrical pattern that followed strict conventions.
    • Like jazz, rap extravagantly syncopates a flexible rhythm against a fixed metrical beat thereby turning a traditional English folk meter into something distinctively African-American.
    • The verse form with its metrical demands, while it aided memorization, led to greater obscurity of expression than prose composition would have entailed.
    • Other phonic features are added to the basic metrical pattern of verse, with or without rhyme.
    • Bogan was not only a great metrical poet but one whose employment of both free verse and vers libéré provided her with enormous artistic power; she knew when, and how, to loosen out her line.
    • A hymn can be defined as an original composition by an author while a metrical psalm or paraphrase is an author's arrangement of an existing biblical text.
    • Walsh's metrical translations mirrored the assonance of the originals.
    • They consist of metrical, continuous verse (or at least mixed verse and prose) and divide not into chapters and sections but, naturally, into verses.
    • Textual criticism and emendation was the order of the day for scholars, with translation, prose and verse composition, and the study of metrical forms being the staple for students.
    • It was obvious to everyone except the old man that this was an entirely futile undertaking, and, when it was eventually published, the metrical translation of the Psalms received absolutely no acclaim whatever.
    • What, then, was the early modern experience of metrical rhythm?
    • Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter.
    • His position at court did not require Lawes to compose for the church, and his only surviving sacred music is a set of psalm settings, using the metrical translations of George Sandys.
    • Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse.
    • This same class was also called on to organize various forms of consensus, and especially to produce laudatory verses, metrical epitaphs, and celebrations of civic life to accompany festivals and other public events.
    • This enabled him to achieve a metrical translation of sixteen plays, including all the histories, which paid sensitive respect to the nuances of form as well as to semantic meaning.
    • Lefevere, though, very simply overstates the case regarding the relative function and desirability of rhymed, metrical translation.
    • Bardic verse was part of an oral tradition defined by strict metrical patterns, combining original narrative with stock formulaic phrases, elaborate similes and extended digressions.
    Synonyms
    in verse, verse, rhythmical
  • 2Of or involving measurement.

    a metrical analysis of male and female scapulae
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Has the regulation been made metrical now, or not?
    • Narrative folk ballads of Mexican origin typically have regular metrical features such as rhyming quatrains and use traditional imagery.
    • Emphasize that the measure's metrical structure is of primary importance and should be solidified before the ornaments are added.
    • In Bogdanowicz and Owen's analysis, 45 metrical and 30 discrete-state characters in 57 extant hipposiderid species were examined.
    • New and previously described material of the genus Atlantoxerus from the Aragonian type area in Spain are assigned to a single species, A. blacki, on the basis of metrical and morphological analyses.
    • The morphological and metrical analyses indicate that all the studied material should be assigned to a single species.
    • One's admiration for this haunting and beautifully cadenced lament is likely to increase when we submit it to metrical analysis.
    • Wrapped in layers of philosophy, history, metrical science and astrology, Kingsbury has also given us a closer look at the central premise of Asimov's trilogy: that what men can predict, men can control.
    • He combined topological and metrical methods to attack problems of real analysis.
    Synonyms
    pulsing, with a steady pulse, rhythmical, measured, throbbing, beating, pulsating, cadenced, lilting, repeated, periodic, regular, steady, even, paced

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metrikos (from metron: see metre)+ -al.

 
 
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