music of the spheres
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Music of the Spheres
释义与例句
n.
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A continuous, glorious, harmonious set of sounds that are not audible to ordinary human beings, said in ancient and medieval Western cosmology to be produced by the movement of the celestial bodies.
音乐宇宙
不可数For sure the milder planets did combine On thy auspicious horoscope to shine . . . And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres
We once believed in the music of the spheres but now we hear silence—static and silence.
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2.
Sublime, mysterious music.
比喻 不可数The last works of Beethoven—the Symphony No. 9, the "Missa Solemnis," the late string quartets, the final piano pieces and the variations—are music of the spheres, mercurial, mysterious and never to be entirely understood.