counterpoint
counterpoint 英 [ˈkaʊntəpɔɪnt] 美 [ˈkaʊntərpɔɪnt]
n. 复调；对位法；旋律配合；对应物
进行时:counterpointing 过去式:counterpointed 过去分词:counterpointed 第三人称单数:counterpoints 名词复数:counterpoints
- To counterpoint is to contrast. If you point out that you should have class outside, someone might counterpoint by reminding you that it’s raining. In music, counterpoint is when two separate melodies are played or sung at the same time.
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- n. 复调；对位法；旋律配合；对应物
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1. Okay, they're doing like a counterpoint, right.
对,它们好像采用了对位法,对的
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2. So it's complex stuff, this polyphony or this counterpoint.
这是复杂的东西,不论是复音还是对位法
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3. It has been an amusing counterpoint to our recent feature on the motor industry's most beautiful designs, which received a fantastic response and earned us several jibes about our questionable taste.
这是我们最近对于汽车工业最美设计讨论的很有趣的对应话题，也获得了大家的广泛回应，并且也确认了我们这群人当中哪些人的品位比较怪异。
- counterpoint (n.1) "quilted coverlet," late 15c., early 15c. in Anglo-French, from Old French (cuilte) contrepointe "(quilt) stitched through and through" (15c.), altered (by substitution of contre) from coute pointe, from Medieval Latin culcita puncta "quilted mattress," from Latin culcita "cushion" + puncta, fem. past participle of pungere "to prick, stab" (from suffixed form of PIE root *peuk- "to prick"). As a verb, "quilt by stitching together two pieces of cloth," from 1590s.
- counterpoint (n.2) mid-15c., "art of singing an accompaniment to plain song," from Old French contrepoint, from Medieval Latin cantus contrapunctus, from contrapunctum, from Latin contra "against" (see contra (prep., adv.)) + puncta (see point (n.)). It is a reference to the indication of musical notes by "pricking" with a pointed pen over or under the original melody on a manuscript. Meaning "one or more melodies added, according to fixed rules, to a given melody or theme" is from 1520s.
- counterpoint (n.3) "the opposite point" (in an argument), 1590s, from counter- + point (n.1). As a verb from 1940s.
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