喜樂美語
  1. 1斷奏、跳音；（引申）短促而斷斷續續的

    In music, staccato means each note is cut short — played, then stopped, so there is a small silence before the next one. The opposite is , where notes flow into each other. In written music a small dot above or below the note head tells you to play it that way. It works as an instruction ("play it staccato"), as a describing word ("staccato chords"), and as a noun for the technique itself ("his staccato is very clean"). Outside music, writers use it for anything that comes in short sharp bursts with gaps between: staccato gunfire, a staccato knock at the door, someone's staccato way of speaking — short bursts of words, often because the person is nervous, angry, or giving orders. Used of speech it is not usually a compliment; it suggests and tense rather than warm. It is an Italian word English kept whole, so we say it the Italian way, roughly stuh-KAH-toh, and the plural, when anyone needs one, is staccatos.

組成Borrowed whole from Italian staccato, meaning detached or separated — the past participle of staccare, to detach. That is a shortened form of distaccare, from Old French destachier (to detach): des- (undo, apart) + atachier (to attach). Behind atachier lies an old Germanic word for a stake — so the picture underneath is of things fastened to a post and then unfastened.

同家族的字

  • detachthe same root — to separate one thing from another; staccato is literally the detached way of playing
  • attachthe other half of the pair — to fasten one thing to another
  • stakethe old Germanic post that attach and detach were originally about fastening to

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

staccatonoun/stəˈkɑːtoʊ/

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicAn articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.

  • 2

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA passage having this mark.

  • 3

    Any sound resembling a musical staccato.

    • According to the syllable-timed hypothesis, Spanish syllables as staccato.
    • The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.

staccatoadv/stəˈkɑːtoʊ/

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicplayed in this style

    • Now, play the same passage very staccato.

staccatoadj/stəˈkɑːtoʊ/

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicDescribing a passage having this mark.

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    Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.

    • The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
    • A kind of tense peace, like the centre of a cyclone, descended. Not for long, of course, for already stealing upon one's hearing would be the staccato bark and thrust of the banker bringing up the rear.

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