| 单词 | time-beater |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime-beater time-beater n. a person who or (occasionally) instrument which beats out the time of a piece of music. ΚΠ 1720 C. Morris Diary 22 Nov. (1934) 82 I had a new Hand made of Deal..put into the Time-Beater. ?1775 W. Waring tr. J.-J. Rousseau Dict. Music 39 These time beaters were called in Greek ποδόκτυποι and ποδοψόϕοι. 1827 Kaleidoscope 9 Oct. 113/1 (heading) Description of a musical time-beater, to indicate audibly the bar and all its subdivisions. 1907 Punch 8 May 332/2 That popular nuisance the time-beater, who punctuates the melody with insistent feet in a theatre or concert-hall. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Jan. (Review section) 36 [He] did little more than act as an efficient time-beater in a reading of Mahler's Fifth Symphony that lacked any overview of the work's emotional trajectory. < as lemmas |
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