| 单词 | metre |
| 释义 | metre (once / 860 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY metre: metres, metrical+/metrical: metrically USAGE EXAMPLESOften flying as low as 100 metres, Dench provided a bird’s eye view of the challenges facing this endangered species. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Locals said that some areas of the city were buried in up to a metre of mud. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) In such a realm of skyscrapers, its 10 metres is nothing, just a squat linear scrap of rubble fit to be cleared. The Guardian(Dec 25, 2016) 1 n the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) 2Syn|Hyper m, meter metric linear unit a linear unit of distance in metric terms 1n rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration Syn|Hyper meter, time rhythmicity the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music 2n (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat, cadence, measure, meter catalexis the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse scansionanalysis of verse into metrical patterns common measure, common meterthe usual (iambic) meter of a ballad foot, metrical foot, metrical unit(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm dactyla metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables iamb, iambusa metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables anapaest, anapesta metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables amphibracha metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') trocheea metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables spondeea metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dibrach, pyrrhica metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern (prosody) a system of versification |
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