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单词 tetralogy
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Definition of tetralogy in English:

tetralogy

nounPlural tetralogies tɪˈtralədʒitɛˈtrɑlədʒi
  • 1A group of four related literary or operatic works.

    (文学作品、歌剧等的)四部曲

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rabbit Remembered may have upset the symmetry of his great tetralogy but it in no way diminishes it.
    • Of the tetralogy, I think Walküre is my least favourite.
    • After much critical success and acclaim, he publicly declared that he would fulfill his life's work and write his masterpiece - the epic Sea of Fertility tetralogy - and then he would die.
    • Mime also appears in the first opera of the tetralogy, Das Rheingold, rehearsals for which began last year.
    • The play completes the tetralogy whose first three parts are the Henry VI plays.
    • As an undergraduate in wartime Oxford he played Angelo in Measure for Measure and in 1951 excited Stratford audiences as Prince Hal and Henry V in the Shakespearian tetralogy.
    • Its success led to the even longer and more expensive The Jewel in the Crown, adapted from Paul Scott's tetralogy about the Indian Raj.
    • Dove's version is a great way to bring a performance of Wagner's great tetralogy to a smaller city's theater, and I was glad to get to experience it.
    • It is part of a larger cycle of history plays known as the major tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V).
    • Dream doubling may also be understood in terms of reincarnation, explored in Mishima's brilliant tetralogy The Sea of Fertility.
    • You could do worse than listening to the broadcasts of the complete cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, as I did this past Saturday, with the first opera of the tetralogy, Das Rheingold.
    • The significance of Owenson's invocation of Shakespeare's second history tetralogy is great not only for its probable influence on Scott - as well as writers such as Edgeworth and Trollope.
    • Over the next three seasons, the other parts of the tetralogy will be given, each by a different set of performers.
    • Dove made this adaptation several years ago, for the use of smaller British touring opera companies, and it is the perfect solution for a smaller city's opera company that wants to produce Wagner's great tetralogy.
    • With a superb opening to the Ring Cycle under their belts, Scottish Opera moves on to the second part of the tetralogy.
    • His latest novel Fidelity is the first in a planned tetralogy based on the history of Brazil.
    • Adam Phillips starts his essay on the impossibilities of human desire by quoting Christopher Tietjens, the stoic hero of Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy, Parade's End.
    • Though more straightforward than the other two films in the tetralogy, The Sun is still not for everyone - many will find the pacing excessively slow.
    • He quit after the first two, realizing he should have stuck with his original plan to watch the George Romero tetralogy.
    • It's probably been twenty years or more since I read L' Engle's ‘Time trilogy’ about the Murry family, and in that time L' Engle has written another book in the series, making it a tetralogy.
    1. 1.1 A series of four ancient Greek dramas, three tragic and one a comedy featuring a chorus of satyrs, originally presented together.
      (古希腊由三部悲剧与一部滑稽喜剧组成的)四联剧,四部曲
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One tradition regarding the arrangement of Plato's texts is according to tetralogies.
      • The earliest copy of Plato's Tetralogies is dated about 1,200 years after Plato supposedly wrote the original.
      • Whereas in the first tetralogy women are granted considerable power as warriors and politicians, in the second tetralogy there are ‘fewer female characters; they have less time on stage and less to say when they get there.’
      • Many of Aeschylus' productions were connected ‘tetralogies’, comprising three tragedies presenting successive episodes of a single story (a ‘trilogy’) followed by a satyr-play based on part of the same or a related myth.
  • 2Medicine
    A set of four related symptoms or abnormalities frequently occurring together.

    〔医〕四联症

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He had a condition called Fallot's tetralogy, which was discovered through a scan when Miss Merchant was 20 weeks pregnant.
    • The various operations performed on these patients were corrective operations for cyanotic heart disease such as tetralogy of Fallot, tricuspid atresia, pulmonary atresia and transposition of great vessels.
    • Fallot's tetralogy is a set of 4 congenital heart defects occurring together.
    • Two of them had Fallot's tetralogy, which Cleland and his colleagues had never operated on before.

Rhymes

allergy, analogy, genealogy, hypallage, metallurgy, mineralogy

Definition of tetralogy in US English:

tetralogy

nountɛˈtrɑlədʒiteˈträləjē
  • 1A group of four related literary or operatic works.

    (文学作品、歌剧等的)四部曲

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dove's version is a great way to bring a performance of Wagner's great tetralogy to a smaller city's theater, and I was glad to get to experience it.
    • Its success led to the even longer and more expensive The Jewel in the Crown, adapted from Paul Scott's tetralogy about the Indian Raj.
    • Though more straightforward than the other two films in the tetralogy, The Sun is still not for everyone - many will find the pacing excessively slow.
    • Over the next three seasons, the other parts of the tetralogy will be given, each by a different set of performers.
    • With a superb opening to the Ring Cycle under their belts, Scottish Opera moves on to the second part of the tetralogy.
    • It is part of a larger cycle of history plays known as the major tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V).
    • It's probably been twenty years or more since I read L' Engle's ‘Time trilogy’ about the Murry family, and in that time L' Engle has written another book in the series, making it a tetralogy.
    • The significance of Owenson's invocation of Shakespeare's second history tetralogy is great not only for its probable influence on Scott - as well as writers such as Edgeworth and Trollope.
    • Of the tetralogy, I think Walküre is my least favourite.
    • Mime also appears in the first opera of the tetralogy, Das Rheingold, rehearsals for which began last year.
    • Dream doubling may also be understood in terms of reincarnation, explored in Mishima's brilliant tetralogy The Sea of Fertility.
    • Rabbit Remembered may have upset the symmetry of his great tetralogy but it in no way diminishes it.
    • After much critical success and acclaim, he publicly declared that he would fulfill his life's work and write his masterpiece - the epic Sea of Fertility tetralogy - and then he would die.
    • The play completes the tetralogy whose first three parts are the Henry VI plays.
    • He quit after the first two, realizing he should have stuck with his original plan to watch the George Romero tetralogy.
    • Dove made this adaptation several years ago, for the use of smaller British touring opera companies, and it is the perfect solution for a smaller city's opera company that wants to produce Wagner's great tetralogy.
    • As an undergraduate in wartime Oxford he played Angelo in Measure for Measure and in 1951 excited Stratford audiences as Prince Hal and Henry V in the Shakespearian tetralogy.
    • You could do worse than listening to the broadcasts of the complete cycle of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, as I did this past Saturday, with the first opera of the tetralogy, Das Rheingold.
    • His latest novel Fidelity is the first in a planned tetralogy based on the history of Brazil.
    • Adam Phillips starts his essay on the impossibilities of human desire by quoting Christopher Tietjens, the stoic hero of Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy, Parade's End.
    1. 1.1 A series of four ancient Greek dramas, three tragedies and one satyr play, originally presented together.
      (古希腊由三部悲剧与一部滑稽喜剧组成的)四联剧,四部曲
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many of Aeschylus' productions were connected ‘tetralogies’, comprising three tragedies presenting successive episodes of a single story (a ‘trilogy’) followed by a satyr-play based on part of the same or a related myth.
      • Whereas in the first tetralogy women are granted considerable power as warriors and politicians, in the second tetralogy there are ‘fewer female characters; they have less time on stage and less to say when they get there.’
      • One tradition regarding the arrangement of Plato's texts is according to tetralogies.
      • The earliest copy of Plato's Tetralogies is dated about 1,200 years after Plato supposedly wrote the original.
  • 2Medicine
    A set of four related symptoms or abnormalities frequently occurring together.

    〔医〕四联症

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He had a condition called Fallot's tetralogy, which was discovered through a scan when Miss Merchant was 20 weeks pregnant.
    • Two of them had Fallot's tetralogy, which Cleland and his colleagues had never operated on before.
    • The various operations performed on these patients were corrective operations for cyanotic heart disease such as tetralogy of Fallot, tricuspid atresia, pulmonary atresia and transposition of great vessels.
    • Fallot's tetralogy is a set of 4 congenital heart defects occurring together.
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