iamb
英 ['aɪæm(b)]
美[aɪ'æmbəs]
- n. 抑扬格，短长格
英英释义
- 1. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
英文词源
- iamb (n.)
- 1842, from French iambe (16c.), from Latin iambus, from Greek iambos (see iambic). Iambus itself was used in English in this sense in 1580s.