Picture the stage before a concert: dozens of players, strings on one side, brass behind, one person on the podium holding them together. American English also uses the word for the seats right in front of that group, down at stage level.

可以想成:音樂會開演前的舞台——幾十位演奏者,弦樂在一邊、銅管在後面,指揮站在中間把大家攏在一起。美式英文還把緊鄰這群人的那區座位(跟舞台同一層的前排)也叫 orchestra,兩個意思其實是「那群人」和「那群人前面的位子」。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

orchestranoun/ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.

    • The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.
    • It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.
  • 2

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterA semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.

  • 3

    The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

  • 4

    A group of crickets.

    • the jackhammering racket of the city softened and an orchestra of crickets trilled in unison
    • Nightfall also awakened the neighborhood orchestra of crickets.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。