英语释义

• to show differences when compared; be different;

  "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"

• a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies

• write in counterpoint;

  "Bach perfected the art of counterpointing"

片语

Double counterpoint二部复对位法；复对位

contrapuntal counterpoint对位式复调

polytonality counterpoint多调性对位

Counterpoint Records出版者

polyphony复调；复调音乐；多音

counterpoint music复调音乐

opposite number地位对等或相当者；对应物；对应号

Simple counterpoint单对位

Baroque Counterpoint书名

Counterpoint International国际同类机构

Electric CounterpointElectric Counterpoint is a minimalist composition written by American composer Steve Reich. The piece consists of three movements, "Fast," "Slow", and "Fast".

英汉例句

• the curve of someone「s hip should echo a draped garment one frame over. bright colors on a dress should play counterpoint off a nearby coat.

  这个人的臀部曲线要和下一幅的大衣相呼应，那套衣服的明色调应和一件旁边的服装相对照。

• being of sane mind and a lover of 「everybody, 」 we want to take the counterpoint approach to the great and lovely institue of marriage and explain the top 10 reasons not to get married.

  作为心智健全的，立志博爱的人，我们希望可以对伟大而可爱的婚姻制度持相反态度，并解释出远离婚姻的10大理由。

• but here’s a final counterpoint to anti-circumcision you may not have considered.

  最后不妨让我给这些反割礼分子最后出人意料的一击。

• routine, as a reasonable counterpoint to corporate gene, has played an important role during this process.

  惯例作为企业基因的合理对应物在这一过程起到了最为关键的作用。

• it has been an amusing counterpoint to our recent feature on the motor industry」s most beautiful designs, which received a fantastic response and earned us several jibes about our questionable taste.

  这是我们最近对于汽车工业最美设计讨论的很有趣的对应话题，也获得了大家的广泛回应，并且也确认了我们这群人当中哪些人的品位比较怪异。

• it is its brand of democracy california thus stands as a rare, and perhaps unique, counterpoint to the many countries whose main problem is a lack of democracy.

  加州标志型的民主才是其独特之处，这也使得加州成了罕有的，也许是独一无二的，很多国家的反例，那些国家的主要问题是缺少民主。

• let「s remember the lesson: skepticism is a crucial counterpoint to positivity, and it」s not the same thing as negativity, which destroys rather than nurtures.

  让我们记住这个教训吧;怀疑理论是一个关键对位，它是积极的，不是消极的。

• i felt a formless faith when i rode through summerwoods, when i heard the counterpoint of breaking waves, when i held a flower in my hand.

  当我骑马穿过夏日的树林，当我聆听 着浪花翻滚的韵律，当我手中握着一朵鲜花时，我感觉到一种无形的信念。

• the book「s story was a fitting counterpoint on a night in which writer after writer expressed pride over the recent election of barack obama.

  小说情节与当晚作家们一个接一个对最近奥巴马的当选表示自豪的情形相谐呼应。

• yet their views, and those of two other taliban commanders interviewed in kabul, are a useful counterpoint to recent hopes that afghan peace talks are in the offing.

  然而他们以及在喀布尔接受采访的另两名塔利班指挥官的看法，为最近酝酿中的阿富汗和平谈判，提供了一个很好的参照。

• he was a beady-eyed prober, like the foxes he loved or his favourite whippet, pluto, whose long-legged grace often appeared in his paintings as counterpoint to some fatter, redder human shape.

  就像他那只备受喜欢的狐貍一样，或是那只最受喜爱的小狗普路托一样，他成了一部目光锐利的探测器。狐貍和小狗的修长秀腿常常在他画中出现，成为一些肥胖人、红肤人的衬托物。

• his plan served as a sharp counterpoint to republican lawmakers, who have insisted that tax increases should play no part in taming the nation」s escalating national debt.

  他的计划充当了与共和党立法者对立的反调，共和党立法者坚持税收增加对国家日益增长的债务不起任何作用。

• he licked his dry lips again, in counterpoint to the tears that started to stream down her face, as he continued.

  他又舔了舔干燥的嘴唇，当他继续说的时候，泪水早已模糊了她的脸。

• then she was gone: her hair a golden blur, the click of her heels on the stone path a counterpoint to the rumbling suitcase wheels behind her.

  她说完这话就走了：她的头发变成了一团模糊的金光，鞋跟敲打在石头路面上发出的咔嗒声，成了拖在她身后的行李箱轮子发出的隆隆声的重复。

• somehow their expressions — of desire, irritation, indifference, devotion and anxiety, all arranged in delicate counterpoint — achieve an otherworldly eloquence.

  不知怎么地，他们对于渴望、恼怒、不在乎、忠诚、焦虑的微妙表达，实现了一种超自然的修辞。

• mr pierre gives us a cast of stoic berliners as a counterpoint to this decadence.

  皮埃尔先生向我们展示了一群坚忍不拔的柏林人，作为这腐朽一切的对比。