Theme

(noun.) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; 'it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme'.

(noun.) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; 'the theme is announced in the first measures'; 'the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it'.

(verb.) provide with a particular theme or motive; 'the restaurant often themes its menus'.

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• I was obliged to recall him to a theme which was of necessity one of close and anxious interest to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Her theme was their wants, which she sought to supply; their sufferings, which she longed to alleviate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Nothing more was said on this theme, and Mr. Harthouse was soon idly gay on indifferent subjects. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Happily, he was soon on another theme. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• More than once he asked the Major about--about Mrs. George Osborne--a theme on which the Major could be very eloquent when he chose. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She would just give me something to do, to rectify--a theme for my tutor lectures. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But excuse me, Dr. John, may I change the theme for one instant? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He pursued his theme, however, without noticing my deprecation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You can make almost any theme amusing to me, Eugene, but not this. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This, however, is not a theme to be treated of in passing only, but will have to be discussed again and again. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Now, my friends, proceeds Mr. Chadband, since I am upon this theme-- Guster presents herself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Oliver Twist being uppermost in his mind, he made him his theme. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• With curious readiness did she adapt herself to such themes as interested him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The phonograph was now fairly launched as a world sensation, and a reference to the newspapers of 1878 will show the extent to which it and Edison were themes of universal discussion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The mammoth and the horse are among the commonest themes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The theatre and the public-house were the chief themes of the wretched man's wanderings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and blunderings over heavier themes, to read those books as I did. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• On one--only one--of her favorite themes she was disappointed. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Children, you know, have little reflection, or rather their reflections run on ideal themes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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