• 1A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.

  歌曲

  a pop song

  一首流行歌曲。

  Example sentencesExamples

  • The choir will be performing a range of different musical styles from show tunes and pop songs to church music.
  • They could all get up and sing a song or 10, and they all knew the songs and sang along!
  • It's shorter than a pop song on the radio and barely the length of a commercial TV break.
  • He was always splendid with children and he would amuse them by singing songs from the opera and the music hall.
  • The sheet music of the song leaves no doubt that Reg Bolton wrote the words, the music being composed by Jimmy Sutton.
  • The idea for the book first came about when Mildred wrote a short song with the title words in it.
  • It used to be, even in pop music, that you sang a song of heartache to get it off your mind, to share with others so maybe you wouldn't hurt so much.
  • A song's words, music tabulation and guitar chords are all as well-protected by copyright law as the sound recording they're heard in.
  • Some slaves even joined in her song by singing the words they knew.
  • She would mention a word and I would have to sing an Elvis song with that word in it.
  • Do a bit of exercising, sing a song, read a poem, watch a sunrise or water your garden.
  • He'd love to form a band, impress the girls and sing pop songs in broken English.
  • A Swedish pop group sang a song about a battle that the English won.
  • You will be required to sing a short song of your choice and demonstrate your acting skills on the day.
  • Anyone wishing to sing a song or recite a poem are welcome to do so.
  • Many households bought parlour pianos and needed music and songs to play and sing.
  • Music was dear to her heart and Delia had a fondness for Irish music and the old songs and ballads.
  • What she actually offers is a load of manufactured pop songs, sung in a slightly affected posh voice.
  • In fact, it is one of the most memorable pop songs in recent Australian music history.
  • The answer is probably that they have shunned the idea of writing short and sweet pop songs.

  Synonyms

  air, strain, ditty, melody, tune, popular song, pop song, number, track

  literary lay

  1. 1.1mass noun Singing or vocal music.
     歌唱；声乐
     the pilgrims broke into song

     朝圣者们开始大声歌唱。

     Example sentencesExamples

     • The birds were in full song in the trees, busily making nests or feeding young.
     • Cultural Industry's show is a triumph of theatre puppetry, mime, music and song over modern technology and effects.
     • Slow music stared, and then Emmet broke into song with his sweet voice.
     • As the singer came out again, she broke into song, the band behind accompanying her svelte, smooth voice.
     • The event will begin on Saturday evening in Newtown Church with an evening of music, song and recital.
     • The concert will feature the Creagh family and friends, with poetry and song.
     • Some of the pan players broke into song, adding flair to the band's rendition as the pan sticks belted down the pulsating rhythms.
     • They broke into song, Shakespearean renditions of a day in the life of an audience member, and even a flashback to Blade.
     • Yet something happens in the repetition of simple phrases put to song.
     • There was song, dance, poetry and recitations and prayers in thanksgiving for Bridgie's major recovery during the year.
     • Your audiences will appreciate those who have lived the life they share with you in their humor, poetry and song.
     • But, neither of us was making any success with anything until Tae-Hyun broke into song.
     • He had a taste for poetry and song, and he generally lived up to the chivalric code.
     • Harvey, who then broke into song and rendered the hymn, Never Get Weary, was quickly accompanied by the congregation.
     • Poetry and song would be inadequate to tell what those two villages said to me during my growing.
     • The program of events also includes a parade, public address, folk dance, song, and poetry recitation.
     • Music, song, story and recitation flowed, while caterers saw no one went without a drink and grub.
     • A happy life after death coincided with fame here on earth, where people would remember you in poetry and song.
     • The people of Thembelihle, a new township on the outskirts of Lenasia in the far south, broke into song to welcome the mayor.
     • Music, song, dance and recitation were the order of the night in Rathkeale.
  2. 1.2 A musical composition suggestive of a song.
     乐曲
     Example sentencesExamples

     • He composed some 700 songs, which makes him one of the most prolific song composers since Schubert.
     • The song has three stanzas of six lines, carrying four stresses downbeats separated by upbeats.
  3. 1.3 A poem, especially one in rhymed stanzas.
     押韵的诗歌
     The Song of Hiawatha

     《海华沙之歌》。

     Example sentencesExamples

     • Pamphilia to Amphilanthus then closes with a series of four songs and nine sonnets.
     • This tribute to the continuing fecundity of the royal marriage reworks the earlier song of Amianteros, with its celebration of natural abundance.
     • Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae; the great line of the centuries begins anew.
     • The elegiac sonnet provides this opportunity for the poet, for it literally becomes a song of mourning.
     • Last of the song's three stanzas, it is suitable comment on the achievement of a dedicated scholar.
     • Poetry in the early seventeenth century is not yet the song of the self.
     • The song of the poet himself will reanimate the memory of Troy and rescue it from the dark tombs.

     Synonyms

     poem, piece of poetry, verse, ditty, ode, limerick, jingle, verse composition, metrical composition
  4. 1.4archaic mass noun Poetry.
     〈古〉诗歌
     Example sentencesExamples

     • The full text of the lyrical song is as follows.

• 2mass noun The musical phrases uttered by some birds, whales, and insects, typically forming a recognizable and repeated sequence and used chiefly for territorial defence or for attracting mates.

  鸣声，虫鸣，鸟啭

  Example sentencesExamples

  • Science journalist David Baron reports on new research using information theory to codify the patterns of whale song.
  • In Bolivia, in two square kilometers, in one week, he recognized 243 bird species just by song.
  • Chaffinches and cowbirds are not the only birds that teach song to their young.
  • He whistles, inexpertly trying to mimic the bird's song, then stops and grins.
  • We only took up birding in April and lack a great deal of fundamental knowledge of bird habitat, habits, and song.
  • Few studies have investigated any aspect of song in suboscine passerines.
  • Males and females differ in plumage and song, produced in duets or separately.
  • And birds have a great advantage over all other animals: song.
  • The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
  • Barn swallow song consists of sequences of various song types organized in bouts.
  • Learn how to use field marks, habitat, behavior, and song to identify birds.
  • Hooligans are not reformed by Mozart, so much as driven away by a noise that is as alien and hostile to their world as whale song to a camel herd.
  • Each species has its own distinct patterns of electric discharges that it uses to communicate, much like birds use song.
  • Males attract mates using song, iridescent plumage and dramatic display flights.
  • Usually early migrants, the first ouzel's song echoes round the hills and the first birds fall prey to merlins and peregrines.
  • This bird has a beautiful trilling song, but it is not delivered in the fall.
  • The Winter Wren is a tiny woodland bird whose song is as elaborate as its plumage is drab.
  • In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine accentor, females attract males by song.
  • Why females should pay attention to male song when choosing mates is less well understood, however.
  • Geographic variation in song among suboscine birds has been taken to indicate genetic divergence.

  Synonyms

  call(s), calling, chirp(s), chirping, cheep(s), cheeping, peep(s), peeping, chirrup(s), chirruping, warble(s), warbling, trill(s), trilling, twitter, twittering, whistling, piping, birdsong

• A dynasty that ruled in China AD 960–1279.

The Northern Song was ousted in 1127 by Mongolian tribes who absorbed it within their newly founded Jin dynasty. The Southern Song continued to flourish until it finally fell to the Mongols, led by the grandsons of Genghis Khan, in 1279. Both the Northern and Southern Song dynasties were marked by prosperity, cultural flowering, and technological advances