核心畫面
Think of a drum you can tap along with: strong, weak, strong, weak, coming back at even distances. Rhythm is not the sound itself but the shape the repeating makes — once you catch it, you can feel where the next beat will land before it arrives.
可以想成一面你跟得上的鼓：強、弱、強、弱，隔著差不多的距離一次一次回來。rhythm 指的不是那個聲音本身，而是「重…更多收起
可以想成一面你跟得上的鼓：強、弱、強、弱，隔著差不多的距離一次一次回來。rhythm 指的不是那個聲音本身，而是「重複」所畫出來的形狀——一旦抓到了，下一拍還沒響，你的身體就已經知道它會落在哪裡。這也是為什麼跳舞的人踩得準、聽歌的人會不自覺點頭：他們接住的是那個可以預期的間隔。原始詞典資料9 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。
rhythmnoun/ˈɹɪð.əm/
- 1
The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- Dance to the rhythm of the music.
- The audience clapped in rhythm as I sang.
- 2
A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
- 3
A flow, repetition or regularity.
- Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.
- Will this decision-making paralysis continue until Great British Railways has been established and settled into a new rhythm? If so, passengers on the West of England line are in for a rough ride, as the reliability of these tired old British Rail trains inevitably declines, and maintenance costs rise.
- 4
The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- We walked with a quick, even rhythm.
- If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
- 5
The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm
- 6
A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
- 7
Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy
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A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
- That girl's got rhythm, watch her dance!
- I'm never gonna dance again / Guilty feet have got no rhythm
rhythmverb/ˈɹɪð.əm/
- 1
To impart a (particular) rhythm to.
- The pamphlet, writes Muray, 'is the supremely affirmative form in which nothing can be turned around, rhythmed or played with in synonyms and rhymes'.
- And so the microchip, say, reflects a certain electronically driven speed of society, just as the invention of a flint axe, reflected a society that was rhythmed fully by biological and environmental temporalities.
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。