theme music/song/tune• Sometimes the cartoontheme song is better than some of the episodes themselves.• Tampons that play the Hollyoaks theme tune when inserted?• Gowie Corby, Gowie Corby, the theme tune for all that's wrong in this school.• I know she liked the theme music.• I worked on the theme song with Ziggy Marley.• The theme music for the show starts up.• The theme music starts and I immediately find something more interesting to do.• The theme tune from Titanic was played at their wedding.
3APMrepeated tune 重复的曲调 a short simpletune that is repeated and developed in a piece of music 主调;主旋律
5piece of writing 作文American EnglishAmESES old-fashioned a short piece of writing on a particular subject that you do for school 〔以某一特定题目写作的〕作文,短论文SYN essay
theme on
Your homework is to write a two-page theme on pollution.
你们的家庭作业是就污染问题写一篇两页的作文。
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adjectives
the main/central/dominant theme
The main theme of the book is the importance of honesty.
a major theme
Cultural change is the second major theme of his work.
a common theme
Death and rebirth is a common theme in Eliot’s poetry.
a recurrent/recurring theme (=one that appears several times)
Returning to traditional values was a major theme of the president’s speech.
an underlying theme (=one that is important but not very noticeable)
One of the book’s underlying themes is the struggle for human rights.
a universal theme (=subjects that affect people of all races and cultures)
Readers everywhere can relate to the universal themes in his work.
phrases
variations on a theme (=things with a similar basic subject, style etc)
Most of her short stories are variations on the theme of tragedy.
variations on ... theme• There are many variations on this theme.• Many variations on the combination theme can be put into practice.• There are numerousvariations on these basic themes to suitsoil, climate, and the main farmingenterprises.• All kinds of variations on this theme can occur.• The aim should be flexibility within a structure; variations on a theme.• For me, it was the most teasing of all things, variations on a theme, slight changes.• The dealers themselves started working variations on the theme.
Origintheme
(1200-1300)Latinthema, from Greek, “something laid down, theme”, from tithenai“to put”