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counterpoint
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coun·ter·point /ˈkaʊntəpɔɪnt $ -ər-/ noun
1 [uncountableU]APM the combination of two or more tunes played together so that they sound like one tune 对位法〔音乐中结合两个或两个以上旋律的方法〕
3 [countableC, uncountableU] when two things that are different are compared in an interesting or pleasant way 有趣的对比，惬意的对照
Examples from the Corpus
counterpoint• The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.• The plainness of the rooms in this series makes an interesting counterpoint to the fanciful objects and people that inhabit them.• Water chestnuts and snow peas provided a light counterpoint to the duck.• These warnings against an excess of counterpoint are really concerned with emotive beauty in music.• This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.• The gnarly Texas scrub provides a vivid counterpoint to the fading sunlight.
(1400-1500) French contrepoint, from Medieval Latin contrapunctus, from contra- ( → CONTRA-) + punctus “musical note, tune”
coun·ter·point noun
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