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A piece of music - a song or an instrumental piece - performed by exactly two people together, either two singers or two musicians playing instruments. It's specifically about the number two; three would be a "trio."
二重唱、二重奏。
組成From Latin "duo" (two).
同家族的字
- duoboth come from the same Latin root meaning "two"
原始詞典資料8 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。
Duetname
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A surname.
duetnoun/djuˈɛt/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
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A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
duetverb/djuˈɛt/
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To perform a duet.
- 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
- He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyTo communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
- 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.
- In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.
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To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
- Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]
- After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.
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(of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
- “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.
- 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward. “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.
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。