单词 | accompany |
释义 | accompany (once / 66 pages) v The verb accompany means to keep someone company, or to be their companion on a trip or journey. In a musical sense, accompany means to play background music for the lead singer or soloist. If you want your friend to keep you company on your way to the store, you could ask her to accompany you on the walk. Or, if you want your friend to play piano while you sing a song, you could ask her to accompany you on piano. Just don’t ask her to do both at the same time or your friend may not want to accompany you anywhere any longer. WORD FAMILYaccompany: accompanied, accompanies, accompaniment, accompanist, accompanying, accompanyist+/accompanied: unaccompanied/accompaniment: accompaniments/accompanist: accompanists USAGE EXAMPLESIt included 15,000 fireworks and was accompanied by music from some of the city's most famous musical exports. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Lane argued it was a complimentary reference to physical strength and “was not accompanied by any overtly racial slurs.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Their stories are accompanied by montages of period photos intended to create an air of credence. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1v go or travel along with The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere Hypo|Hyper walk accompany or escort consort, runkeep company escortaccompany as an escort escort, seeaccompany or escort tag alonggo along with, often uninvited trotcause to trot squireattend upon as a squire; serve as a squire safeguardescort safely convoyescort in transit chaperon, chaperoneaccompany as a chaperone marchforce to march go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v be a companion to somebody Syn|Hyper companion, company, keep company affiliate, associate, assort, consort keep company with; hang out with 3v perform an accompaniment to Syn|Hyper follow, play along play play on an instrument 4v be present or associated with an event or entity heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries Syn|Hypo attach to, come with, go with co-occur with, collocate with, construe with, cooccur with, go with go or occur together attendto accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result rulehave an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac |
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