Ballad

(noun.) a narrative poem of popular origin.

(noun.) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain.

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• As if it were Cock Robin, the hero of the ballad, and Mr Venus were the sparrow with his bow and arrow, and Mr Wegg were the fly with his little eye. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Shirley resumed her ballad minstrelsy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I will assay, then, said the knight, a ballad composed by a Saxon glee-man, whom I knew in Holy Land. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It is cracked; I hear her trying out of her window a schrecklich English ballad, called 'De Rose upon de Balgony. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And what catchpenny ballad writer could not write a parody on them as you have done? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Now I am the first man in the state, burthen of every ballad, and object of old women's mumbled devotions. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But, like Jenny in the ballad. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They were wretched stuff, in street-ballad style; and when they were printed, my brother sent me about the town to sell them. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Walk in, brother,' said Silas, clapping him on the shoulder, 'and take your seat in my chimley corner; for what says the ballad? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Who has read the ballad of Puir Mary Lee--that old Scotch ballad, written I know not in what generation nor by what hand? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I had a very choice collection of ballads, and there was a new stock of gingerbread in the tin box. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In merry England there is no end of popular ballads on this theme. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Recollections of happy trysts of lovers, commemorated in old ballads, returned on her mind; she thought such tryst in such scene would be blissful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Snatches of sweet ballads haunted her ear; now and then she sang a stanza. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Was it outside that very house as I first set eyes upon him, rolling in the lap of luxury, when I was selling halfpenny ballads there for a living? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He wrote poetry--sonnets, stanzas, ballads. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And then to be shut in on each side, with these ballads, like so many book-leaf blinkers! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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