octave
n
1 (music 音)
(a) note that is six whole tones above or below a given note 第八音.
(b) space between two such notes 八度
These notes are an octave apart. 这些音相距八度.
(c) note and its octave played together 八度和音
The child's hands are too small to stretch to an octave on the piano. 这孩子的手太小, 按不到钢琴上八度和音的键.
(d) note and its octave with the six notes in between 八度音程(包括两个八度音之间的六个音). Cf 参看 scale2 6.
2 (also octet) (in poetry) first eight lines of a sonnet; verse of eight lines (诗)十四行诗的前八行, 八行诗.
🗣️ 情景例句
Good-bye.
再见。
A cat has nine lives.
猫有九条命。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.