隨意將音符長度增減的
Rubato \Ru*ba"to\, a. [It.] Robbed; borrowed. {Temple rubato}. [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.
rubato n : a flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat