Minstrel
['mɪnstr(ə)l] or ['mɪnstrəl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a performer in a minstrel show.
(verb.) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels.
整理:萨莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
安吉洛手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Musician, singer, bard.
贾尔斯錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Singer, musician, bard
伊丽莎白編輯
解釋/意思:
n. one of an order of men who sang to the harp verses composed by themselves or others: a musician: one of a class of performers with blackened faces of negro songs.—n. Min′strelsy the art or occupation of a minstrel: a company or body of minstrels: a collection of songs: (Chaucer) instrumental music.
伊莎贝拉錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Formerly a poet singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.
編輯:罗伊
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A footlight foul that makes its nightly lay in every city.
手打:奥斯伯特
例句/造句/用法:
- Friar Tuck, said the Minstrel, drawing him apart from the rustics; we have started a new hare, I find. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The Muse of Music, Miss Halcombe, deserts us in dismay, and I, the fat old minstrel, exhale the rest of my enthusiasm in the open air! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- As to the little minstrel, he probably prefers encountering the Philistines with no other weapon than his flute. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Your heart is a lyre, Robert; but the lot of your life has not been a minstrel to sweep it, and it is often silent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Richard, a professed admirer of the joyous science in all its branches, could imitate either the minstrel or troubadour. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- By Saint Hubert, said the Minstrel, but it is a wondrous tale, and fit to be put in metre to the ancient tune, 'Sorrow came to the old Friar. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- That last part of thy speech, Dennet, said the Minstrel, has saved thee a rib or twain. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I pray you, Sir Knight, said Rowena, to cease a language so commonly used by strolling minstrels, that it becomes not the mouth of knights or nobles. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They survived, indeed, in Europe as the minstrels into the Middle Ages. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The French minstrels are not silent on so popular a theme. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
校對:利昂