rhythm: [16] Rhythm goes back ultimately to Greek rhuthmós. This originally meant ‘recurring motion’, and was related to the verb rhein ‘flow’ (source of English catarrh and diarrhoea). It was subsequently applied to ‘recurrent accents in verse’, in which sense it passed into English via Latin rhythmus. (Later Old French alteration of the word led to English rhyme.) => catarrh, diarrhoea, rheumatic, rhyme
rhythm (n.)
1550s, "rhymed verse, metrical movement," from Latin rhythmus "movement in time," from Greek rhythmos "measured flow or movement, rhythm; proportion, symmetry; arrangement, order; form, shape, wise, manner; soul, disposition," related to rhein "to flow," from PIE root *sreu- "to flow" (see rheum). Rhythm method of birth control attested from 1936. Rhythm and blues, U.S. music style, is from 1949 (first in "Billboard").
中文解释
1. R&B，也称RNB，它的全写是Rhythm and Blues，译作“节奏蓝调”或“节奏布鲁斯”。融合了爵士乐，福音音乐和蓝调音乐的音乐形式。2. 小编以前拼写这个词时经常出错，后来看到关于这个词的一个顺口溜，就再也没拼错过，“人和妖，兔和猫”，这六个字的第一个字母顺下来正好是这个词的拼写哦！怎么样，押韵吧。介个，小编突然想起了《大话西游》里话唠儿唐僧那一段要命的台词：人和妖都是妈生的，不同的是，人是人他妈生的，妖是妖他妈生的，blablabla…，此处省去一万字。然后，旁边的妖怪受不了，上吊自杀了。。。。。
实用例句
1. The ship adjusted herself to the roll and rhythm of the sea.
船随着海水的起伏节奏时起时落。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The immediate ancestor of rock "n" roll is rhythm-and-blues.
摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。
来自柯林斯例句
3. They've revivified rhythm and blues singing by giving it dance beats.
他们为节奏布鲁斯的歌曲中加入了舞曲的节奏，使之变得更加活跃。
来自柯林斯例句
4. She could hear the constant rhythm of his breathing.
