duet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
  2. A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
  3. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
    — The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
动词 v.
  1. To perform a duet. intransitive
    — 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
  2. To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song. intransitive
    — 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
  3. To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet. transitive
    — Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]
  4. (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus. transitive
    — “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.

词形变化

duets plural duets present,singular,third-person duetting participle,present dueting participle,present duetted participle,past duetted past dueted participle,past dueted past

词汇关系

近义词
pair twosome
衍生词
duetist duetlike duetter duettist virtual duet
相关词
dual duo solo trio quartet quintet sextet septet octet nonet

词源

词源 1
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
词源 2
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
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