opera

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n.  歌剧; 歌剧剧本; 歌剧艺术; 歌剧团; 歌剧院
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牛津词典

noun

• 歌剧；歌剧剧本；歌剧艺术
  a dramatic work in which all or most of the words are sung to music; works of this type as an art form or entertainment
  1. Puccini's operas
     普契尼的歌剧
  2. to go to the opera
     去看歌剧
  3. an opera singer
     歌剧演员
  4. light/grand opera
     轻 / 大歌剧
• 歌剧团；歌剧院
  a company that performs opera ; a building in which operas are performed
  1. the Vienna State Opera
     维也纳国家歌剧院

柯林斯词典

• See also:...a one-act opera about contemporary women in America....Donizetti's opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'....an opera singer...He was also learned in classical music with a great love of opera.soap opera

英英释义

noun

• a building where musical dramas are performed
  Synonym:opera house
• a drama set to music

双语例句

• If you have never been to an opera, you haven't lived
  要是从来没看过歌剧，那就枉过此生了。
• Are you an opera lover?
  你是歌剧发烧友吗？
• I love opera and last year I got tickets for Covent Garden
  我喜爱歌剧，去年我搞到几张科芬园皇家歌剧院的票。
• I happen to be an aficionado of the opera, and I love art museums
  碰巧我是个歌剧迷，而且我爱去艺术博物馆。
• He assumed a posture and began to sing a part in a Beijing opera.
  他拉开架子，唱起了京剧。
• After failing a singing audition at the Metropolitan Opera, she turned to musical comedy.
  在大都会歌剧院的试唱失败后，她转而投身歌舞喜剧。
• Strauss spent much of 1941 scoring his last opera, Capriccio
  施特劳斯用了1941年的大部分时间为自己的最后一部歌剧《随想曲》编写总谱。
• He acted Lin Chong in the Beijing opera Driven to Join the Liangshan Rebels.
  他在京剧《逼上梁山》里去林冲。
• It was an opera, very glamorous and very sensual.
  这场歌剧美轮美奂，声色俱佳，给感官以极大享受。
• The British public's wariness of opera is an anomaly in Europe.
  英国公众对歌剧不大轻易接受的态度在欧洲来说很反常。