rhythm

英 ['rɪð(ə)m] 美 ['rɪðəm]

解释

※ 提供单词"rhythm"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

rhythm 节奏，韵律

来自拉丁语 rhythmus,来自希腊语 rhythmos,节奏，韵律，来自 rhein,流动，来自 PIE*sreu,*ser, 流动，词源同 serum,rheum.

rhythm: rhythm: [16] Rhythm goes back ultimately to Greek rhuthmós. This originally meant ‘recurring motion’, and was related to the verb rhein ‘flow’ (source of English catarrh and diarrhoea). It was subsequently applied to ‘recurrent accents in verse’, in which sense it passed into English via Latin rhythmus. (Later Old French alteration of the word led to English rhyme.)
=> catarrh, diarrhoea, rheumatic, rhyme
rhythm (n.): 1550s, "rhymed verse, metrical movement," from Latin rhythmus "movement in time," from Greek rhythmos "measured flow or movement, rhythm; proportion, symmetry; arrangement, order; form, shape, wise, manner; soul, disposition," related to rhein "to flow," from PIE root *sreu- "to flow" (see rheum). Rhythm method of birth control attested from 1936. Rhythm and blues, U.S. music style, is from 1949 (first in "Billboard").

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1. The ship adjusted herself to the roll and rhythm of the sea.: 船随着海水的起伏节奏时起时落。

2. The immediate ancestor of rock "n" roll is rhythm-and-blues.: 摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。

3. They've revivified rhythm and blues singing by giving it dance beats.: 他们为节奏布鲁斯的歌曲中加入了舞曲的节奏，使之变得更加活跃。