tempo

Related topics: Music

tem·po /ˈtempəʊ $ -poʊ/ noun (plural tempos) [countableC]

1. APMthe speed at which music is played or should be played 〔音乐演奏的〕速度

2 SPEEDthe speed at which something happens 〔事情进展的〕节奏，步调

the easy tempo of island life

岛上生活的轻松节奏

Examples from the Corpus

tempo• The quietness of the house, to which she stood listening, was a new quietness with an alien tempo.• His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling.• From the start, Dallas controlled the tempo of the game.• What, then, I wondered, controls the tempo of life in the deep sea?• The tempo of operations was fast, impressive.• The tempo of the chase increases.

Origin tempo

(1600-1700) Italian “time”, from Latin tempus

词汇	tempo
释义	tempo Related topics: Music tem·po /ˈtempəʊ $ -poʊ/ noun (plural tempos) [countableC] 1. APMthe speed at which music is played or should be played 〔音乐演奏的〕速度 2 SPEEDthe speed at which something happens 〔事情进展的〕节奏，步调 the easy tempo of island life 岛上生活的轻松节奏 Examples from the Corpus tempo• The quietness of the house, to which she stood listening, was a new quietness with an alien tempo.• His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling.• From the start, Dallas controlled the tempo of the game.• What, then, I wondered, controls the tempo of life in the deep sea?• The tempo of operations was fast, impressive.• The tempo of the chase increases. Origin tempo (1600-1700) Italian “time”, from Latin tempus
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