汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 顿挫
顿挫 (頓挫)
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes / a cadence / punctuated by a transition / with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
〈动〉(语调、音律等)停顿转折:抑扬~。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

你看,我曾经是一个顿挫,第四十二磅许多人一样的,你在那里。

You see, I was once a frustrated, forty-handicapper like many of you out there.

诗歌以高度升华的语言文字言志抒怀,歌之诵之咏之,凭藉其自身的声调韵律,显露出抑扬有致、顿挫有度的艺术美感。

Highly expresses feelings by the sublimate language, the poetry was song, read and chanted with its own intonation rhythm, which reveals the cadenced esthetic sense.