音樂裡往下的那一拍
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noun · C1
In music, the first beat of a bar — the one that carries the strongest push and that players count from.
強拍／第一拍
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downbeat
nounOne way to hold this noun: a hand coming down, and everyone starting at the moment it lands. That falling hand marks the first beat of the bar, the strongest one in the group. The same word covers both halves of that picture — the beat you hear, and the movement that calls it.
這個名詞可以想成「一隻手往下落，所有人在它落下的那一刻一起開始」。那一下標出的是小節裡的第一拍，也是一組拍子裡最有力的一下。這個字把畫面的兩半都包了進去：你聽到的那一拍，還有把那一拍叫出來的那個動作。
From the word’s history
The packet gives this noun simply as down + beat, a separate entry from the adjective. The 'down' is literal: the conductor's stroke falls downward on that beat.
封包把這個名詞單獨列成一條，來源就是 down 加 beat，和形容詞那一條分開。這裡的 down 是照字面的：指揮的手就在那一拍往下劃。
Wiktionary etymology 1 supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1495640800): 'From down + beat'.
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A second word, same spelling
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downbeat
adjectiveOne way to hold this adjective: something that has been pressed down and stays low. No shouting, no lift — the voice, the mood or the style sits close to the ground. Whether that reads as sad or simply as quiet depends on what is being described, but the low, flat level is the same in both.
這個形容詞可以想成「被壓低了，就停在低的地方」。沒有吵鬧，也沒有振作起來的那一下。聲音、氣氛或風格都貼著地面走。至於它聽起來是難過，還是只是安靜，要看它形容的是什麼；不變的是那個「低而平」的高度。
From the word’s history
The packet gives this adjective a different origin from the music noun: an earlier form downbeaten, from the phrasal verb beat down. That fits the low, pressed-down feeling the word carries, and it is why this record is kept separate from the music one.
封包把這個形容詞和音樂的名詞分成兩個字源條目。形容詞較早的形式是 downbeaten，來自片語動詞 beat down（把人壓垮）。這正好對上它今天那個「被壓低、抬不起來」的感覺，也是為什麼這裡和音樂那一支分開成兩張圖。
Wiktionary etymology 2 supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1495644814): 'Earlier downbeaten, from the phrasal verb beat down'.
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低而平的感覺
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adjective · B2
Sad, or showing no hope and no excitement about something, so that the feeling that comes across is low and flat.
低落悲觀