ballad

英 [ˈbæləd]

美 [ˈbæləd]

n.  叙事诗; 民歌; 民谣; (节奏缓慢的)情歌

复数：ballads　

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Collins.1 / BNC.10212 / COCA.9402

牛津词典

noun

• 叙事诗；民歌；民谣
  a song or poem that tells a story
  1. a medieval ballad about a knight and a lady
     一首关于骑士和贵族小姐的中世纪谣曲
• （节奏缓慢的）情歌
  a slow popular song about love
  1. Her latest single is a ballad.
     她的最新单曲唱片是一首情歌。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 民谣；叙事诗歌
  Aballadis a long song or poem which tells a story in simple language.
  1. ...an eighteenth century ballad about some lost children called the Babes in the Wood.
     一首18世纪的关于几个迷路小孩的叙事诗，名为《树林中的宝贝》
• N-COUNT （节奏舒缓的）流行抒情歌曲，情歌
  Aballadis a slow, romantic, popular song.
  1. 'You Don't Know Paris' is one of the most beautiful ballads that he ever wrote.
     《猜不透的巴黎》是他创作的最为优美动听的情歌之一。

英英释义

noun

• a narrative poem of popular origin
  Synonym:lay
• a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
  Synonym:lay

双语例句

• And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career.
  就象歌中的老兵一样，我结束我的军旅生涯，只是淡出了人生舞台。
• Chapter two Have described the ballad phenomenon of augury of the Tang Dynasty concretely in the forms of children's folk rhymes, augury ballad of stone engraving of inscription and augury of poem.
  第二章从童谣、铭文石刻谶谣和诗谶三个方面具体论述了唐代谶谣现象。
• The recitation of a ballad, an ode, etc.
  叙事歌谣、颂诗等的背诵。
• I realized they use more than one style, they can do rock, love ballad and pop-rock.
  我知道他们拥有不只一种演唱风格，他们可以演奏摇滚乐，情感民歌，流行音乐。
• The book reads like a ballad
  这本书读起来像歌谣。
• The street ballad seller set all men singing of liberty;
  这位民谣歌本的街头叫卖者使所有的人唱起了自由之歌；
• The thesis which divides into four parts studies the phenomenon of augury ballad of the Tang Dynasty.
  本文分四个部分对唐代谶谣现象作一个初步考察。
• Be smiling, be going to sing the ballad living.
  微笑着，去唱生活的歌谣。
• Work songs, hymns, tralling vocals and old printed ballad stories, skillingsviser, have also been popular.
  劳动歌曲、圣歌和其他老版本的情歌故事，如skillingsviser也受到欢迎。
• 'You Don't Know Paris' is one of the most beautiful ballads that he ever wrote.
  《猜不透的巴黎》是他创作的最为优美动听的情歌之一。