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The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza. / (by extension) A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.

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refrain

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹɪˈfɹeɪn/

Noun

broadly

Japanese Meaning

歌の各節や詩節の終わりに繰り返される副歌（歌のリフレイン） / 頻繁に繰り返されるコメント、文句、または言い回し

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The refrain at the end of each verse lingered in the listeners' minds long after the concert.

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各節の終わりに繰り返されるサビが、コンサートが終わった後も聴衆の心に残った。

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The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.

For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

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(by extension) A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.

refrains

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