喜樂美語

核心畫面

A theme can be pictured as the one thread running through the whole thing — the single idea or tune that everything else is built around and keeps coming back to.

可以想成貫穿整件作品的那一條線：不管表面上講了多少東西，底下都繞著「同一個中心」在轉。這個中心可能是一個想法，也可能…更多收起可以想成貫穿整件作品的那一條線：不管表面上講了多少東西，底下都繞著「同一個中心」在轉。這個中心可能是一個想法，也可能是一段反覆出現的旋律——重點是它一直在，把零散的部分串成一個整體。

From the picture

反覆出現的旋律

在音樂裡,那條「貫穿的線」變成了一段聽得見的旋律——它一再回來,成為整段音樂的識別記號。

musical motif · noun · B2

A short, simple tune that comes back again and again and is changed a little each time in a piece of music.

主旋律

統一的風格

把「同一個中心」從想法、旋律推到看得見的佈置上:整個場地或活動都照「一個概念」來設計。

decorative theme · noun · B2

A particular style or design used to decorate a place or plan an event around one idea.

風格／主題

Also in this word

main subject/idea · noun · B2

The main subject or idea that a book, film, speech, or piece of writing is about.

主題

school essay (dated) · noun · B2

A short piece of writing about one subject that a student writes for school (old-fashioned American English).

作文

原始詞典資料14 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。

themenoun/θiːm/

  • 1

    A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.

    • "Had not you once a beautiful daughter, named Mary?" said the stranger. "It is a heartrending question, man," said Andrew; "but certes, I had once a beloved daughter named Mary." "What became of her?" asked the stranger. Andrew shook his head, turned round, and began to move away; it was a theme that his heart could not brook.
  • 2

    A recurring idea; a motif.

    • variations on the theme of entrepreneurial resourcefulness
  • 3

    A recurring idea; a motif.

    • switch to a dark theme to conserve battery power
  • 4

    datedAn essay written for school.

    • Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.
    • […] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization.
  • 5

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.

  • 6

    broadcastingfilmmediaA song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.

  • 7

    An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.

  • 8

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe stem of a word.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.

  • 10

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTheta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.

  • 11

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTopic, what is generally being talked about.

  • 12

    A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

themeverb/θiːm/

  • 1

    To give a theme to.

    • We themed the birthday party around superheroes.
  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).

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。