释义
n.
Music a note, rarely used in modern music, having the time value of two semibreves, and represented as a semibreve with two short bars either side, or as a square
【乐】二全音符。
a written or printed mark (ˇ) indicating a short of unstressed vowel
短音符号(ˇ)。
historical an authoritative letter from a pope or monarch
〈史〉(教皇或君主的)谕令,上谕。
词源
"Middle English: variant of BRIEF. In the musical sense, the term was originally used in a series where a long was of greater time value than a breve."