verse

英 [vɜːs]

美 [vɜːrs]

n. 诗; 韵文; 诗节; 歌曲的段落
v. 作诗或者从事于作诗; 使熟练或者精通

复数：verses　过去分词：versed　现在分词：versing　过去式：versed　第三人称单数：verses　

Collins.2 / BNC.3540 / COCA.5446

习惯用语

chapter and verse

准确细节；（尤指信息的）确切出处
the exact details of sth, especially the exact place where particular information may be found
I can't give chapter and verse, but that's the rough outline of our legal position.
我无法提供准确细节，但那是我们所处法律地位的大致情况。

noun

诗；韵文
writing that is arranged in lines, often with a regular rhythm or pattern of rhyme
1. Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose.
  这剧本大部分是用韵文写的，不过有一些是用散文。
诗节；歌曲的段落
a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song
1. a hymn with six verses
  一首六节的赞美诗
诗
poetry
1. a book of comic verses
  打油诗集
（《圣经》的）节
any one of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible

See also:...a slim volume of verse...I have been moved to write a few lines of verse.blank verse
N-COUNT 诗节;诗行；（歌曲的）段落;（《圣经》、《古兰经》等中的）节
Averseis one of the parts into which a poem, a song, or a chapter of the Bible or the Koran is divided.
1. This verse describes three signs of spring...
  这节诗描绘了春天来临的三个征兆。
2. The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.
  合唱团只唱了最后一首赞美诗的两个段落。
chapter and verse→ see:chapter

noun

verb

familiarize through thorough study or experience
1. She versed herself in Roman archeology
compose verses or put into verse
1. He versified the ancient saga
Synonym:versifypoetizepoetise

I have been moved to write a few lines of verse.
我因感动而写下了几句诗。
He recited a verse of the twenty-third psalm.
他背诵了《诗篇》第23篇中的一节。
He published only three slim volumes of verse in his short life.
在他短暂的一生里，他只出版过3卷薄薄的诗集。
Satirical Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Verse Fable and Prose Poetry.
讽刺诗，抒情诗，寓言诗和散文诗；
He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his avowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse.
他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。
In rehearsing Shakespeare, I puzzle over the complexities of his verse and prose.
在排演莎士比亚的戏剧时，其中诗句和散文的复杂让我大伤脑筋。
In the course of the evening he gave me chapter and verse on the mosses of the Islay peat bogs.
整个晚上，他向我详细讲述艾莱岛泥炭沼泽地上的各种青苔。
He quoted a verse from the Bible.
他引用圣经中的一节。
The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard.
这首诗开头的几行抄袭了一个广告牌上的一节诗。
Who can resist lines like these, or cares to quibble whether they can be defined as verse?
谁能抗拒这样的诗句，还去斤斤计较这能不能称为诗？