英语词汇“dithyramb”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

dithyramb

/ˈdɪθɪram(b)

noun

1A wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus.His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus....

Plato observes that the types were once distinct: a hymn would not be confused with a dirge, dithyramb, or paean.
So theologian Harvey Cox, in his dithyramb on the resurrection of Dionysus, applauded us for ushering in a new age.

1.1A passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing.Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations....

He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet.
Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye.

Derivatives

dithyrambic

/dɪθɪˈrambɪk

/ adjective ...

The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed.
From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers.
Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing.

Origin

Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek dithurambos, of unknown ultimate origin.

单词	dithyramb
释义	dithyramb /ˈdɪθɪram(b) / noun 1A wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus.His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.... Plato observes that the types were once distinct: a hymn would not be confused with a dirge, dithyramb, or paean. So theologian Harvey Cox, in his dithyramb on the resurrection of Dionysus, applauded us for ushering in a new age. 1.1A passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing.Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations.... He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet. Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye. Derivatives dithyrambic /dɪθɪˈrambɪk / adjective ... The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed. From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers. Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing. Origin Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek dithurambos, of unknown ultimate origin.
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