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interlude

/in-ter-lood/US // ˈɪn tərˌlud //UK // (ˈɪntəˌluːd) //

插曲,穿插,间歇期,穿插进行

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
    • : a short dramatic piece, especially of a light or farcical character, formerly introduced between the parts or acts of miracle and morality plays or given as part of other entertainments.
    • : one of the early English farces or comedies, as those written by John Heywood, which grew out of such pieces.
    • : any intermediate performance or entertainment, as between the acts of a play.
    • : an instrumental passage or a piece of music rendered between the parts of a song, church service, drama, etc.

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Examples

  • Glass delivers a far more urgent book, but she shares Bennett’s visual focus and pointillist detail, her penchant for lyrical interludes, and a romance for nature manifested in metaphors.

  • Besides being a refreshing interlude, it has helped me discover new poets that I wouldn’t have read otherwise.

  • Its short chapters, interspersed with interludes of photos, pack a wallop of poignancy, beauty, love – even joy.

  • For those awaiting the “matrix in the matrix,” as Musk had hinted on Twitter, the cute-animal interlude was not exactly what they hoped for.

  • Some of the little interludes I talk about voting, or I talk about this or that.

  • The cops subsequently pulled the surveillance camera footage and noted the interlude in minutest detail.

  • They seem to be something more like a brief interlude between his early acts of violence and their later, depraved culmination.

  • It was an anti-climactic interlude in a trial that has had many moments of drama.

  • A hazy choral interlude follows, followed by more nasty beats and acerbic lyrics.

  • “It can be an interlude which changes the present dialogue about the momentum of the campaign,” Jamieson added.

  • Gradually and imperceptibly the interlude melted into the soft opening minor chords of the Chopin Impromptu.

  • It is hard to say just when the lights went down on Sara Lee's quiet stage and the interlude began.

  • Mr. Shiel readily made this statement, and thus ended this ridiculous interlude.

  • Then, by way of interlude, on the 28th March, came the notorious Dahlgren raid.

  • Before Father Irwin was questioned, however, there was a delightful interlude.