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    Tenor has two very different everyday meanings. In music, a tenor is a man who sings in a fairly high voice range — lower than a soprano, higher than a bass — and it's also used for the singer himself ('he's a tenor in the choir'). Away from music, 'the tenor of' something means its general mood, direction, or attitude — 'the tenor of the meeting was hopeful' means the overall feeling of the meeting was hopeful. This second meaning is more formal and shows up in writing about discussions, debates, and speeches more than in casual chat.

    （音樂）男高音；（正式用法）整體的基調、大致方向（如 the tenor of the discussion）

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組成It comes from a Latin word meaning 'to hold'. In old church music, the tenor part 'held' the main melody while other voices sang around it.

同家族的字

  • maintainshares the Latin root meaning 'to hold'
  • containshares the Latin root meaning 'to hold'

原始詞典資料13 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。

tenornoun/ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

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    A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

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    archaicentertainmentlifestylemusicA musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.

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    The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.

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    Tone, as of a conversation.

    • Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics.
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    obsoleteduration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.

    • It is the conſciouſneſs of this merited approbation and eſteem which is alone capable of ſupporting the agent in this tenour of conduct.
    • Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
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    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.

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    businessfinanceTime to maturity of a bond.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
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    Stamp; character; nature.

    • This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.
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    lawAn exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

    • Than he shall delyuer to vs a tenour of that he ought to do.
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    That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

    • When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
    • He would have learned , by the whole tenor of the divine law , and especially by the example of the absent Lord , whose property he was for a season trusted with , that he was to do as much good to humanity , and win as much glory to God, as was compatible with the measure of his trust, and for the time for which he might retain it.
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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA tenor saxophone.

tenoradj/ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/

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    Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

    • He has a tenor voice.
    • Many a star athlete has very little hair anywhere except what he wears on top of his head, and a voice that is absolutely tenor.

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。