| 单词 | coda |
| 释义 | coda (once / 16081 pages) n A coda is a concluding segment of a piece of music, a dance, or a statement. It's usually short and adds a final embellishment beyond a natural ending point. Like this. Coda comes from the Italian word couda, and it's good to think of it as a tail tacked onto something that in and of itself is already a whole. If you tell a story about your crazy experience getting lost in the country and sleeping at a farmer's house, you might add, as a coda, that the farmer ended up visiting you too, a year later. WORD FAMILYcoda: codas USAGE EXAMPLESBut the Plaza gathering was a personal milestone for me, too, and the coda to a long career reporting on Clinton Inc. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) In “As,” this gritty register also arrives wildly disconnected from the style that preceded the coda. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) Its coda, “Praise the Lord and Pass Me My Commission,” caught his commander’s attention. Washington Post(Dec 11, 2016) n the closing section of a musical composition Syn|Hyper finale close, closing, conclusion, end, ending the last section of a communication |
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