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ottava

/oh-tah-vuh; Italian awt-tah-vah/US // oʊˈtɑ və; Italian ɔtˈtɑ vɑ //UK // (əʊˈtɑːvə) //

摄取,承担,摄制,占用

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    Music.

    • : at an octave higher than written or lower than written. Abbreviation: 8va

Examples

  • That the ottava rima on the one hand, and the sonnet on the other, may have suggested the idea of it is quite possible.

  • The ottava rima of the Italians, the natural outcome of Keats's turning to Italy for his story.

  • Boccaccio's favourite stanza in the Teseide, known as the ottava rima, ends with two lines that form an heroic couplet.

  • It is in ottava rima, with the translation prefixed to it of the Latin poem Furor Petroniensis.

  • The plays are almost uniformly written in ottava rima, and poorly printed in double columns.