Tenor
['tenə] or ['tɛnɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the pitch range of the highest male voice.
(noun.) the general meaning or substance of an utterance; 'although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument'.
(noun.) a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; 'nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways'.
(noun.) the adult male singing voice above baritone.
(noun.) an adult male with a tenor voice.
(adj.) of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice; 'tenor voice' .
(adj.) (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; 'a tenor sax' .
阿德拉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
(n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
(n.) Stamp; character; nature.
(n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
(n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
(n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
錄入:皮埃尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Course, manner, fashion, mood, form, cast, cut, stamp, tone, tendency, character.[2]. Meaning, intent, purport, import, sense, spirit, drift, gist, significance.[3]. (Music.) Highest part (for a man's voice).
手打:洛伊斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Drift, purport, Intent, course, character, sense, stamp, meaning, effect, aim,scope, direction
ANT:unmeaningness, purposelessness, irrelevance, discursiveness, Incoherence,variance, divergence
校對:内尔
解釋/意思:
n. continuity of state: general run or currency: purport: the higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males: the part next above the bass in a vocal quartet: one who sings tenor.—adj. pertaining to the tenor in music.—ns. Ten′or-clef the C clef placed on the fourth line; Ten′orist.
手打:洛伊斯
例句/造句/用法:
- And in that conversation—' 'It is not necessary to repeat its tenor, Bounderby. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings, must have borne the same general proportion to our own. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Such was the tenor of his public letters. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The daily details of Mrs. Hatch's existence were as strange to Lily as its general tenor. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- As he neared the house, the rich tenor voice of Caliphronas rang vibrating through the still air. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I believe, as far as Henry is concerned, that was the tenor of his scarcely intelligible directions; but he may change all to-morrow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Piacenza's the toughest house to sing in the north of Italy, the other tenor said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The tenor of my actions will prove that I had rather die, than be a mark for scorn--behold the proud Evadne in her tatters! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Treble, tenor, and bass notes were to be found therein. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This tenor's name was Edgar Saunders, and he sang under the name of Edouardo Giovanni. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The Dowager for a moment gave him an angry look; but tossed it off with her head and her fan, and pursued the tenor of her way in her former manner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The air as sung by the tenor voice would be represented by _B_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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