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A group of four people doing something together, most often four musicians playing music together, like a string quartet (two violins, a viola, and a ). It can also mean a piece of music written for four performers, or, more loosely, any group of four things or people — 'a quartet of new laws' means four new laws.
四重奏、四人組
組成quart- (from Latin 'quattuor,' meaning four) + -et.
同家族的字
- quarterboth come from the Latin word for four, 'quattuor'
原始詞典資料4 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。
quartetnoun/kwɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛt/
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A group of four people or things, particularly
- The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA group of four people or things, particularly
- The string quartet played some chamber music.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA group of four people or things, particularly
- He composed a string quartet.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA group of four people or things, particularly
- The barbershop quartet performed the composition a cappella.
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。