Chime
[tʃaɪm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument.
(verb.) emit a sound; 'bells and gongs chimed'.
巴兹尔錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) See Chine, n., 3.
(n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
(n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
(n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
(n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
(n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
(n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
(n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
(v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
(v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
手打:奥拉夫
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Consonance, harmony, correspondence of sound.
v. n. Harmonize, accord, sound in harmony.
手打:米格尔
解釋/意思:
n. the harmonious sound of bells or other musical instruments: agreement of sound or of relation: harmony: (pl.) a set of bells.—v.i. to sound in harmony: to jingle: to accord or agree: to rhyme.—v.t. to strike or cause to sound in harmony: to say words over mechanically.—Chime in to join in in agreement; Chime in with to agree or fall in with.
n. the rim formed by the ends of the staves of a cask: (naut.) a hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
編輯:卢克
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of Christmas chimes, denotes fair prospects for business men and farmers. For the young, happy anticipations fulfilled. Ordinary chimes, denotes some small anxiety will soon be displaced by news of distant friends.
希尔达整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- How I should chime in with their manners over there! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Her singing was less remarkable, but also well trained, and sweet to hear as a chime perfectly in tune. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Let it chime for ever. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The chime mechanism is sometimes so constructed that it may be played like a piano, but with the fist instead of the fingers. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It struck twelve--I waited till the time-piece had concluded its silver chime, and the clock its hoarse, vibrating stroke, and then I proceeded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- If your inclinations chime with your sense of duty--' Harry began. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- How do Chimes Strike the Hour? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Not an atom,' chimes in Brewer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Do the chimes of the distant church bells lead one to the house of worship? 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighboring clock. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Mr. Pickwick had meditated himself into a doze, when he was roused by the chimes of the neighbouring church ringing out the hour--half-past eleven. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Light broke, movement gathered, chimes pealed--to what was I coming? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mr Riderhood very slowly and hoarsely chimed in, with several retrospective nods of his head. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And stand a gallon of beer down,' chimed in Mr. Simpson. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr Riderhood chimed in, as before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was a simple sentence--very artlessly, a little timidly, pronounced; but it chimed in harmony to the youth's nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Married already, Mrs. Bute chimed in; and both sate with clasped hands looking from each other at their victim. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The minds of the two girls being toned in harmony often chimed very sweetly together. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I cannot possibly countenance any such inconsistent proceeding, chimed in the Dowager Ingram. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
整理:默尔