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amphibrach

/am-fuh-brak/US // ˈæm fəˌbræk //UK // (ˈæmfɪˌbræk) //

两栖动物,两栖栖息地,两栖栖动物,两栖动物协会

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Prosody.

    • : a trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is short, long, short in quantitative meter, or unstressed, stressed, unstressed in accentual meter. Thus, together is an accentual amphibrach.

Examples

  • Similarly, such a word as alighted, in which a strong syllable is situated between two weak ones, may be called an 'amphibrach.'

  • The amphibrach plays a highly important part in English verse, though it is usual not to mention it at all.

  • The Amphibrach is a foot of three syllables, the first and third short, and the second long.

  • But these lines are of the high burlesque kind, and in this stile the Amphibrach closes lines with great beauty.

  • Similarly, the symbol means a trochee; and the symbol means an amphibrach.

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