counterpoint

Word family

Related topics: Music

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〕

in counterpoint to something

The viola is exactly in counterpoint to the first violin.

中提琴和第一小提琴完全对位。

2. [countableC]APM a tune that is one part of counterpoint 对位旋律

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

counterpoint to

I have used my interviews with parents as a counterpoint to a professional judgement.

我把我和家长的访谈拿来与专家的意见作了有趣的对照。

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.

Origin counterpoint