词为我用 - ditty

词汇释义

dittyUK  /ˈdɪt.i/ US  /ˈdɪt̬.i/TEM8    GRE

noun, A ditty is a short or light-hearted song or poem.小曲，小调，小诗

外刊例句

1. "He's here he's there, he's every fucking where, Tony Green, Tony Green" went a popular terrace ditty, while another proclaimed "We got Tudor from Sheffield and Hibbitt from Leeds, Macdonald from Luton and Smith Aberdeen, but we got the greatest the world's ever seen, we bought him from Blackpool his name's Tony Green!(The Guardian - Sport)

2. As they wheeled around the street they played a song mocking the Irish famine, a ditty that urges Scottish Catholics of Irish origin to "go home" now that the famine is long over.(The Guardian)

3. Berlusconi, meanwhile, owner of Italy's three biggest private television channels, sought solace in the arms of Francesca Pascale, a former television showgirl famed for co-singing a ditty with the memorable catchphrase: "If you show a bit of thigh, the ratings go up".(The Guardian)

4. So go the words of a funny little ditty we long-suffering AFC Bournemouth fans have sung on the terraces for as long as I can remember – sending up Millwall's famous "No one likes us …" chant.(The Guardian - Opinion)

5. The critical response to the video has ranged from bemused to appalled. But anyone who believes this country ditty is as bad as they come clearly has a short memory.(The Economist)

6. At least we can feel thankful that the marimba didn't interrupt a ditty by Wagner.Read more: In this week's paper, we review a book about youth orchestras in Venezuela, and mention an ambitious Mahler programme Gustavo Dudamel is conducting at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.(The Economist)

7. This correspondent suggested, "Kierkegaard liked his liquor hard", but that was no match for this ditty tweeted by Clive Crook, formerly of The Economist and now a writer on economics for Bloomberg View: "Sodden Kierkegaard, when he'd had a few, could bore you senseless about what is true".(The Economist)

8. In modern Europe it has to be the Swedish ditty that won the Eurovision song contest in 1984, whose cheery inanity captures the spirit of the annual pan-European event.(The Economist)

9. IN 1882 W.S. Gilbert wrote, to a tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan, a ditty that went "I often think it's comical how Nature always does contrive/that every boy and every gal that's born into the world alive/is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative. In the 19th century, that view, though humorously intended, would not have been out of place among respectable thinkers.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

pretty, little ditty

词汇来源

"short song or poem intended to be sung to a simple melody,"early 14c., from Old French ditie "composition, poem, treatise," from Latin dictatum "thing dictated," neuter past participle of dictare "dictate," frequentative of dicere "to say, speak" (from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly"). In Middle English used of any literary composition, including dramas, essays, letters.

近义词

ballad, jingle, lyric, song

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