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The finale is the last part of a piece of music, a concert, a show, a film, a sports season, or another big event — the part that is built to feel like an ending, often bigger and louder than what came before.
The finale終曲、大結局、壓軸 is the last part是最後的部分 of a piece of music, a concert, a show, a film, a sports season, or another big event可以是一段音樂、一場演唱會、一齣戲、一部電影、一個運動賽季或其他大型活動的 the part that is built to feel like an ending是被設計成有結束感的那個部分 often bigger and louder than what came before通常比前面的部分更盛大、更響亮
In music it may be a named last movement. On television people talk about a season finale or a series finale. People stretch it, too: the finale of a long dinner, the finale of a career.
In music在音樂裡 it它 may be a named last movement可能是有名字的最後一個樂章 On television在電視上 people talk about a season finale or a series finale人們會說season finale或series finale People人們 stretch it, too也把這個字用得更寬 the finale of a long dinner一場長宴的finale the finale of a career一個生涯的finale
It is not the same as a final in sport or school (the last match, the last exam), though the two sit near each other in the mind. Finale points at a designed last moment, the one the makers saved for the end.
It它 is not the same as a final in sport or school跟運動或學校裡的final不一樣 (the last match, the last exam)(最後一場比賽、最後一次考試) though the two sit near each other in the mind雖然這兩個字在腦中位置很接近 Finale指的是 points at a designed last moment一個被設計好的最後時刻 the one the makers saved for the end是製作者特地留到最後的那個時刻
組成From Italian finale, “ending”, from Late Latin finalis, from Latin finis, “end; boundary, limit”. It is a doublet of final: same old root, two English words.
同家族的字
- finaldoublet: both from Latin finis, “end”
原始詞典資料2 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。
finalenoun/fɪˈnɑːli
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The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
- Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
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human-scienceslinguisticsnarratologyThe chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.
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。