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trochee

/troh-kee/US // ˈtroʊ ki //UK // (ˈtrəʊkiː) //

特罗切,特罗凯,特鲁切,特罗凯斯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Prosody.

    • : a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. Symbol: 

Examples

  • A Trochee is a two-syllable foot accented on the first syllable.

  • Antispast, an′ti-spast, n. in metre, a foot composed of an iambus and a trochee.

  • It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.

  • The trochee seems in general to indicate an outpouring of emotion or sudden burst of feeling too strong for control.

  • It would be impossible for him to talk in a steady, straight-forward iambic, or even in the hesitating, emotional trochee.