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couplet

/kuhp-lit/US // ˈkʌp lɪt //UK // (ˈkʌplɪt) //

对联,对句,对偶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
    • : a pair; couple.
    • : Music. any of the contrasting sections of a rondo occurring between statements of the refrain.

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Examples

  • Jumping from couplets to capitalism, Alphonso, or at least its concentrated pulp, has starred for a decade alongside the waiting, pining, aching Bollywood beauty, Katrina Kaif, in a series of TV commercials for a popular mango drink made by Pepsi.

  • Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonableBut say you had it generate rhyming couplets with Shakespeare and Pope as examples.

  • Haiku are fine — 5-7-5, please — but I’ll also accept limericks and rhyming couplets.

  • Shockingly, this last couplet made it into the 1953 film version; someone was napping over at MGM.

  • Did they ever consider selecting the first line of this couplet for the title of their edition?

  • China's use of these beasts always reminds me of a couplet I read years ago in a newspaper column.

  • The commonest stanza is a quatrain consisting of four heptasyllabic lines with the rhyme at the end of the couplet.

  • In a couplet of passionate melancholy she asked, where are the roses of yesterday?

  • John Briggs never took a dare, and at noon, when Mr. Cross was at home at dinner, he wrote flamingly the descriptive couplet.

  • That was the name they had given him; he could hear the night crowds shouting it in a silly couplet: Il nous faut-oBeau Cocono-o!

  • The reading of each couplet by the minister before it was sung seemed to him a sort of recitative.