xylophone
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈzaɪ.ləˌfəʊn/
美 /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
— All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?
动词 v.
- To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
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To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
— my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories
词源
词源 1
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
词源 2
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
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