Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

couplet

Chinese translation:

对句。对联。联句

Oct 17, 2008 00:54
16 yrs ago
English term

couplet

GBK English to Chinese Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Definition from The Poetry Archive :
A couplet is a stanza (or even a poem) consisting of two lines. These need not rhyme, nor be the same length, but can be. If there is no enjambment at the end of the second line, it can be called a closed couplet (the opposite being an open couplet), especially if this is a recurring pattern.
Example sentences:
Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. (Wikipedia)
Elaine Feinstein's 'Urban Lyric' has an individual aspect of the scene in each couplet, each of which is linked, however, to the adjacent aspects. (The Poetry Archive)
Elementary students rhyme, write couplets, make and paint clay pumpkins, and write pumpkin poems during a reading lesson about The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin. (suite101.com)
Proposed translations (Chinese)
5 +2 对句。对联。联句
5 对句
Change log

Oct 17, 2008 00:54: changed "Stage" from "Preparation" to "Submission"

Oct 20, 2008 00:54: changed "Stage" from "Submission" to "Selection"

Nov 16, 2008 02:54: changed "Stage" from "Selection" to "Completion"

Proposed translations

+2
10 days
Selected

对句。对联。联句

Definition from Google Definition:
&quot;Couplet&quot; is episode 14 of season 3 in the television show Angel. See List of Angel episodes for a complete list. <br />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet (Angel episode)<br /><br />In poetry, a pair of lines with rhyming end words <br />en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couplet<br /><br />pair of rhymed lines, often used as a way of rounding off a sonnet; hence the term ‘closing couplet’.<br />labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php<br /><br />a pair of lines rhyming consecutively.<br />home.cfl.rr.com/eghsap/apterms.html/<br /><br />Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.<br />doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/languagearts/reading/07/March%20Reading%20Glossary.doc<br /><br />two successive rhyming lines. Couplets end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.<br />shs.msdpt.k12.in.us/staff/hdrummond/documents/GlossaryofPoetricTerms.doc<br /><br />a pair of rhymed lines containing a complete thought<br />academics.hamilton.edu/english/ckodat/150Wlitterm.html<br /><br />two-line stanza triplet: three-line stanza quatrain: four-line stanza quintet: five-line stanza sestet: six-line stanza septet: seven-line stanza octave: eight-line stanza<br />mail.baylorschool.org/~jstover/toolbox/poetry.html<br /><br />The two roadways of a divided highway, named differently, approximately parallel with traffic flow in opposite directions and separated by ...<br /><b><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/asset_mgmt/AssetMgmtTermsAndDefinitions.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/asset_mgmt/AssetMgmtTermsAndDefiniti...</a></b><br /><br />A pair of lines of verse of the same length that usually rhymes.<br /><b><a href="http://www.kahnwithak.com/poetry_terms.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.kahnwithak.com/poetry_terms.htm</a></b><br /><br />a rhymed pair of lines, which are usually of the same length. If these are iambic pentameters it is termed a heroic couplet. This form was made popular by Chaucer&#039;s Canterbury Tales and became the dominant poetic form in the latter part of the seventeenth century. ...<br /><b><a href="http://www.geocities.com/razifs_storage1/glossary.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.geocities.com/razifs_storage1/glossary.html</a></b><br /><br />a pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter<br /><b><a href="http://www.bv229.k12.ks.us/bvn_mworthington/AP%20Toolbox/literaryterms.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.bv229.k12.ks.us/bvn_mworthington/AP Toolbox/literaryter...</a></b><br /><br />a two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines.<br />research.uvsc.edu/mortensen/2250/assignments/poetryvocab.html<br /><br />A pair of layers, usually in an alternating series. Couplets presumably represent alternating conditions of precipitation, as may occur where climate is highly seasonal (ie, alternating from a very wet to a very dry season or very warm to very warm season).<br /><b><a href="http://www.gly.uga.edu/speleoatlas/SAglossary1.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.gly.uga.edu/speleoatlas/SAglossary1.html</a></b><br /><br />Two lines of poetry that have the same meter, and rhyme scheme. Example: I&#039;m being driven up the WALL I need to make a phone CALL. D<br />library.thinkquest.org/3721/poems/forms/definitions.html<br /><br />a pair of rhyming lines with identical meter.<br /><b><a href="http://www.ffl.msu.ru/img/pages/File/UK_literature.doc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.ffl.msu.ru/img/pages/File/UK_literature.doc</a></b><br /><br />a pair of rhyming verse lines<br />wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/130/133428/glossary.html<br /><br />A pair of lines that rhyme with each other.<br /><b><a href="http://www.benybont.co.uk/triolet/terms.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.benybont.co.uk/triolet/terms.htm</a></b><br /><br />two successive lines of poetry<br /><b><a href="http://www.iclasses.org/assets/literature/literary_glossary.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.iclasses.org/assets/literature/literary_glossary.cfm</a></b><br /><br />a stanza of two rhyming lines; especially, such lines of the same length, as &quot;The learn&#039;d is happy nature to explore, / The fool is happy that he knows no more&quot; (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man).<br /><b><a href="http://www.nde.state.ne.us/READ/FRAMEWORK/glossary/general_a-e.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.nde.state.ne.us/READ/FRAMEWORK/glossary/general_a-e.htm...</a></b><br /><br />Two lines of poetry with the same rhyme and meter, often expressing a complete and self-contained thought. The following couplet is from Alexander Pope&#039;s &quot;Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady&quot;: &#039;Tis Use alone that sanctifies Expense, And Splendour borrows all her rays from Sense.<br /><b><a href="http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/dfs_0000_0023_0/dfs_0000_0023_0_00026.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.novelguide.com/a/discover/dfs_0000_0023_0/dfs_0000_0023...</a></b><br /><br />paired lines of verse, often rhyming.<br /><b><a href="http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp</a></b>
Example sentences:
This antithetical couplet is my father's handwriting. 这幅对联是父亲的亲笔。 heroic couplet 英雄偶句诗体(互相押韵的两行诗) "Trite as the language is, this couplet has deep significance,"thought Yucun. " "雨村看了,因想到:""这两句话,文虽浅近,其意则深" (jukuu)
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对句

Definition from own experience or research:
对句是由两个诗句组成的诗节(甚或诗)。 两诗句可亦或无须押韵和要求长度相同。 若第二诗句末尾不跨行连续,尤其两诗句形式重复,此类对句叫封闭对句(与其相对的是开放对句)。
Example sentences:
原指古代诗文中字数相同﹑文意相对的句子。魏晋以来﹐文人学士讲究声韵骈俪﹐对句在形式上渐趋格律化。近体诗兴起后﹐因称律诗的中间两联(颔联﹑颈联)为对句 (汉典)
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