melody: [13] Greek mélos originally meant ‘limb’ (it is related to Cornish mal ‘joint’), but it was transferred metaphorically to a ‘limb or ‘part’ of a piece of music’, a ‘musical phrase’, and from there to ‘song’. It was combined with the element ōid- ‘singing’ (source of English ode) to form melōidíā ‘choral song’, which passed into English via late Latin melōdia and Old French melodie. The compound melodrama [19] is of French origin. => melodrama, ode
melody (n.)
late 13c., from Old French melodie "music, song, tune" (12c.), from Late Latin melodia, from Greek meloidia "a singing, a chanting, choral song, a tune for lyric poetry," from melos "song, part of song" (see melisma) + oide "song, ode" (see ode).
雙語例句
1. The melody that ran through his brain was composed of bad notes.
回蕩在他腦海里的旋律都走調(diào)了。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The melody is then taken up by the flutes.
接著由長笛奏主旋律。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
她開始用鋼琴演奏那首民歌.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The melody harks back to one of his earlier symphonies.
這首曲子使人想起他早期的一首交響曲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. As soon as a melody is finished with, the composer writes another.