volta

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈvoʊltə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
  2. A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
  3. A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
    — […][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.

词形变化

voltas plural

词源

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.
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