heroic verse

heroic verse — 名詞

1. A metrical line of six feet used in the epic poetry of ancient Greece and Rome,

1.名詞C2
釋義

古典六步格

古希臘羅馬史詩使用的六音步詩行

A metrical line of six feet used in the epic poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, in which each foot typically follows a stressed–unstressed–unstressed rhythm but may substitute a foot of two stressed syllables.

例句

Ayesha recited twelve lines of heroic verse from the Aeneid in her seminar.

Ayesha 在研討課上朗誦了十二行《埃涅阿斯紀》的史詩六步格詩句。

heroic verse + from [classical epic title]

Across the long afternoon, Gabriel scanned the heroic verse of the Odyssey for irregular feet.

Gabriel 花了整個下午分析《奧德賽》史詩六步格中的不規則音步。

scanning heroic verse — collocation for metrical analysis

常見搭配
  • scan heroic verse
  • compose in heroic verse
  • recite heroic verse
同義詞

2. A metrical line of five iambic feet, each moving from an unstressed to a stresse

2.名詞C2
釋義

史詩五步格

十七、十八世紀英國史詩使用的抑揚五步格

A metrical line of five iambic feet, each moving from an unstressed to a stressed syllable, used as the standard form for English epic poems between about 1650 and 1800.

例句

Roya analysed the heroic verse of Paradise Lost for her dissertation on Milton.

Roya 為她的彌爾頓論文分析了《失樂園》的史詩五步格。

heroic verse of [English epic title]

Ziad sat in the library with Dryden's Virgil open, tapping out the heroic verse rhythm on his knee.

Ziad 坐在圖書館裡,腿上攤開德萊頓翻譯的維吉爾作品,用手輕敲著史詩五步格的節奏。

常見搭配
  • English heroic verse
  • write in heroic verse
  • a passage of heroic verse
同義詞

常見錯誤

Milton wrote Paradise Lost in heroic couplets.
Milton wrote Paradise Lost in heroic verse.
Heroic couplets are rhymed pairs of iambic pentameter; heroic verse refers to the metre as used in epic, which is often unrhymed.