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A lilt is a pleasant rise and fall in sound — in a voice, or in a tune. The voice does not stay flat; it moves up and down in an easy, almost singing way. People often use lilt about Irish, Scottish, or Welsh speech, though actually any voice can have one: we just notice it more when it sounds musical to us. In music it is that same gentle swing that makes you want to tap a foot. The word can also be a verb: to lilt the words is to say or sing them with that rise and fall. It is a kind, word, a little more at home in writing and careful talk than in short everyday chat.
輕快的抑揚；語調（或旋律）的起伏
組成From Middle English lilten, lulten. The modern word does not split into pieces a student can see.
同家族的字
- liltingthe usual adjective (and -ing form) of this same rising-and-falling sound
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。
liltverb/lɪlt/
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To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
- Whether the bird flit here or there, O'er table lilt , or perch on chair
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To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
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To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
- A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thunderous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors.
liltnoun/lɪlt/
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An animated, brisk motion; a spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
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A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
- He was going away quite in despair, when a little old man, who was looking on with marks of displeasure in his face, came up to him, and telling him he was his friend, and his father's friend, bade him go into the ring and call for a lilt.
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A cheerful or melodious accent or style in speaking.
- The two works have the attractive lilt of Middle English, with all the remedies for bites of serpents and cures for eye troubles of the day.
- Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
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。