rhyme

• n. 韵律；韵脚；韵文；押韵词
• vt. 使押韵；用韵诗表达；把…写作诗
• vi. 押韵；作押韵诗

来自古法语 rime,同韵，押韵，词源同 rhythm,后拼写受 rhythm 影响俗化。

1. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

2. a piece of poetry

rhyme

rhyme: [12] Etymologically, rhyme and rhythm are the same word. Both go back to medieval Latin rythmus ‘rhythm’, but whereas rhythm has reached us almost unchanged, rhyme has come via a branch line. The sort of accented verse to which the medieval Latin word was applied commonly rhymed, and so when rythmus passed into early Old French as *ritme, it carried connotations of ‘rhyming’ with it.

This later developed to rime, and when English borrowed it as rime, it still contained the notion of ‘rhythm’; but by the 13th century ‘rhyme’ was becoming its main meaning. The spelling rhyme, which emerged around 1600, represents a conscious partial return to the word’s ultimate ancestors, Latin rhythmus and Greek rhuthmós.
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rhyme (n.)

"agreement in terminal sounds," 1560s, partially restored spelling, from Middle English ryme, rime (c. 1200) "measure, meter, rhythm," later "rhymed verse" (mid-13c.), from Old French rime (fem.), related to Old Provençal rim (masc.), earlier *ritme, from Latin rithmus, from Greek rhythmos "measured motion, time, proportion" (see rhythm).

In Medieval Latin, rithmus was used for accentual, as opposed to quantitative, verse, and accentual verse usually was rhymed, hence the sense shift. Persistence of older form is due to popular association with Old English rim "number," from PIE root *re(i)- "to reason, count" (see read (v.)). Phrase rhyme or reason "good sense" (chiefly used in the negative) is from late 15c. (see reason (n.)). Rhyme scheme is attested from 1931. Rhyme royal (1841) is a stanza of seven 10-syllable lines rhymed a-b-a-b-b-c-c.

rhyme (v.)

"make verses, make rhymes," c. 1300, rimen, from Old French rimer, from rime "verse" (see rhyme (n.)). Attested 1670s (of words) in sense "to have the same end sound." Modern spelling is from 1650s, by influence of rhythm. Related: Rhymed; rhyming. The phrase rhyming slang is attested from 1859.

As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self-expression, like the disciplines of metre and rhyme (韵律), spur creative thought

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Can you think of a rhyme for ‘beauty ’?

你能想出和beauty押韵的词吗？

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children's rhymes and stories

儿歌和童话

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a poem written in rhyme

押韵的诗

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the poet's use of rhyme

诗人对韵的运用

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‘Though ’ rhymes with ‘low ’.

though和low押韵。

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‘Tough ’ and ‘through ’ don't rhyme.

tough和through不押韵。

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rhyming couplets

同韵偶句

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You can rhyme ‘girl ’ with ‘curl ’.

你可以用girl和curl押韵。

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I prefer poems that rhyme.

我喜欢句尾押韵的诗。

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June always rhymes with moon in old love songs.

在老情歌中June总是和moon成韵。

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...the sort of people who give their children names that rhyme: Donnie, Ronnie, Connie.

给孩子取Donnie, Ronnie, Connie之类押韵的名字的父母

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In his efforts to make it rhyme he seems to have chosen the first word that comes into his head.

为了押韵，他似乎选择了脑海里出现的第一个词。

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...rhyming couplets.

押韵的对句

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The one rhyme for passion is fashion...

和passion押韵的词是fashion。

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The lyrics are banal and the rhymes clumsy.

歌词平淡老套，押韵生硬蹩脚。

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He was teaching Helen a little rhyme.

他当时正教海伦一首押韵小诗。

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Porter stayed within the rules of rhyme...

波特遵循押韵的规则。

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The plays are in rhyme.

这些剧本以韵文写成。

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He picked people on a whim, without rhyme or reason.

他选人时总是随心所欲，毫无根据。

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This nursery rhyme is very familiar to me.

我对这首摇篮曲很熟悉.

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The rhyme inventory only has one nasal coda and one glottal stop coda.

韵母系统里只有一个鼻尾,一个喉塞尾.

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This poem doesn't rhyme.

这首诗不押韵.

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Rhyme: Do you know who I am?

莱姆: 你知道我是谁?

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Broad leaves shone and swung gayly in rhyme.

树上的绿叶闪闪发光,有节奏地快乐地摇摆着.

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The last two lines ( ie of verse ) rhyme.

诗的最后两行押韵.

辞典例句

The old man was very peppery and sometimes without rhyme or reason flew into a passion.

这位老头性情暴躁,有时无缘无故地大发雷霆.

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And I wove the thing to a random rhyme.

我聊将此事写一首小诗.

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