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A counterpoint is something you place next to another thing to show a difference or to balance it out — like a different opinion offered right after someone else's, or a calm scene right after an one in a movie. In music, counterpoint is an older technique of playing two or more different melodies at the same time so they fit together well.
（觀點、情境等的）對比、對照；（音樂）對位法
組成From counter- (against, opposite) + point (in old music theory, a 'point' meant a musical note) — literally 'note against note'.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
counterpointnoun詞源 1/ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains its simultaneous identity; a composition consisting of such contrapuntal melodies.
- I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.
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Any similar contrasting element in a work of art.
- As counterpoints to the glamorous looks of 1980s models such as Chistie Brinkley and Heidi Klum, heroin chic looks such as Kate Moss were thin to the point of anorectic gauntness.
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An opposite point.
- […] Priests; who affecting in them selves and their followers a certein Angelical puritie, fell sodainly to the very counterpoint of justifying bestialitie.
counterpointverb詞源 1/ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
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To compose or arrange such music.
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To serve as an opposing point against.
- […] the dominant discourse on theory and method in the study of religions remains stuck on the debate about reductionism, which is in turn bent on representing the debate about theory and method in the study of religions as a choice between an unscientific phenomenology or an unsympathetic positivism (for phenomenology the idea that explanation is always 'bad' is perfectly counterpointed by the idea that religion is always 'good').
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。