名词
1. (作品、谈话、讨论的)主题，题目
A theme in a piece of writing, a talk, or a discussion is an important idea or subject that runs through it.
2. (艺术品、文学作品的)主题，中心思想
A theme in an artist's work or in a work of literature is an idea in it that the artist or writer develops or repeats.
3. (音乐的)主旋律
A theme is a short simple tune on which a piece of music is based.
4. (电影、电视节目、广播节目的)主题音乐，主题曲
Theme music or a theme song is a piece of music that is played at the beginning and end of a film or of a television or radio programme.
1. a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
e.g. it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme
Synonym: motif
2. (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
e.g. thematic vowels are part of the stem
Synonym: rootroot wordbasestemradical
3. an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
e.g. he got an A on his composition
Synonym: compositionpaperreport
4. the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
e.g. he didn't want to discuss that subject
it was a very sensitive topic
his letters were always on the theme of love
5. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
e.g. the theme is announced in the first measures
the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it
Synonym: melodic thememusical themeidea