| 单词 | rhythm |
| 释义 | rhythm (once / 419 pages) 1n 2n 3n Use the noun rhythm to refer to the regular pattern of something in a cycle or the beat in a song. In the summer, your life takes on a different rhythm than during the school year. Rhythm comes from the Greek rhythmos "measured movement, flow." The beat of a song or the meter of a poem is its rhythm. You can also describe the cycle of things that happen in life or nature like the ocean tide or the passing of the seasons as a rhythm. If you have no rhythm, you're not very good at dancing. And once your favorite basketball team has found its rhythm, you know it's going to win. WORD FAMILYrhythm: rhythmic, rhythmical, rhythms+/rhythmic: nonrhythmic, rhythmicity, unrhythmic/rhythmical: rhythmically, unrhythmical/unrhythmic: unrhythmically USAGE EXAMPLESThe disrupted circadian rhythms caused by working shifts or crossing time zones also seem to induce the disease. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) Colorado: It was a tough outing for the Buffaloes, who never seemed to find their offensive rhythm. Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) Rhythm and rhyme Age 5 and younger, an interactive musical experience incorporating the use of musical instruments. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) 1 1n an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs Syn|Hyper cycle, round interval, time interval a definite length of time marked off by two instants 2n recurrence at regular intervals 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper regular recurrence cardiac rhythm, heart rhythm the rhythm of a beating heart atrioventricular nodal rhythm, nodal rhythmthe normal cardiac rhythm when the heart is controlled by the atrioventricular node cyclicity, periodicity the quality of recurring at regular intervals 1n the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music the piece has a fast rhythm Syn|Hypo|Hyper beat, musical rhythm backbeat a loud steady beat downbeatthe first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) offbeat, upbeatan unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) syncopationa musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat musical time (music) the beat of musical rhythm 2n the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements 3the rhythm of Frost's poetry Syn|Hyper speech rhythm guide, template, templet a model or standard for making comparisons inflection, prosodythe patterns of stress and intonation in a language n natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle) Syn|Hyper calendar method, calendar method of birth control, rhythm method, rhythm method of birth control natural family planning any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
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