melody: [13] Greek mélos originally meant ‘limb’ (it is related to Cornish mal ‘joint’), but it was transferred metaphorically to a ‘limb or ‘part’ of a piece of music’, a ‘musical phrase’, and from there to ‘song’. It was combined with the element ōid- ‘singing’ (source of English ode) to form melōidíā ‘choral song’, which passed into English via late Latin melōdia and Old French melodie. The compound melodrama [19] is of French origin. => melodrama, ode
melody (n.)
late 13c., from Old French melodie "music, song, tune" (12c.), from Late Latin melodia, from Greek meloidia "a singing, a chanting, choral song, a tune for lyric poetry," from melos "song, part of song" (see melisma) + oide "song, ode" (see ode).
双语例句
1. The melody that ran through his brain was composed of bad notes.
回荡在他脑海里的旋律都走调了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The melody is then taken up by the flutes.
接着由长笛奏主旋律。
来自《权威词典》
3. She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
她开始用钢琴演奏那首民歌.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The melody harks back to one of his earlier symphonies.
这首曲子使人想起他早期的一首交响曲.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. As soon as a melody is finished with, the composer writes another.
