ditty
ditty 英 [ˈdɪti] 美 [ˈdɪti]
n. 小曲；小调
名词复数:ditties
- A ditty is a little song or a simple tune. When you're babysitting, you might sing a soft ditty to help a child fall asleep.
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- n. 小曲；小调
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1. Regardless, the little ditty conveyed foundational information in a happy little package.
不管怎样，这首小调在欢快的节奏下传递了基本的信息。
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2. No ditty floated into Blackmoor Vale from the outer world but Tess's mother caught up its notation in a week.
只要有小调从外面的世界传入黑荒原谷，苔丝的母亲就能在一星期里学会它的曲子。
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3. “He gets degrees in making jam/at Liverpool and Birmingham,” went one popular ditty.
（“他获得了做果酱的学位/不过是在利物浦和伯明翰”这种讽刺小调说明一切）。
- ditty (n.) "short song," c. 1300, 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").
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