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spondaic

/spon-dey-ik/US // spɒnˈdeɪ ɪk //UK // (spɒnˈdeɪɪk) //

辣妹子,辣条,辣妹,辣妹纸

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Prosody.

    • : of or relating to a spondee.
    • : noting or constituting a spondee.
    • : consisting of spondees; characterized by a spondee or spondees.

Examples

  • Their first group singing of a Sunday consisted of Negro spirituals in spondaic and trochaic verse, and phrased in many minors.

  • His versification is often hard and spondaic, the elisions too frequent, and the csura too much neglected.

  • There is in its slow spondaic movement an eternity of tears.

  • The result so far attained has been unsatisfactory, for the rhythms are all given as spondaic.

  • If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter.