distune
vt. [古语]使…走调, 使变调, 使无调
词形变化
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三单
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现在分词
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过去式
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过去分词
释义与例句
v.
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1.
To put (something) out of tune.
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2.
To cause (something) not to be in harmony or to be poorly adjusted.
比喻 及物1654, Thomas Jackson, A Treatise of the Primaeval Estate of the First Man, Section 2, Chapter 13, in An Exact Collection of the Works of Doctor Jackson, London: Timothy Garthwait, p. 3037, But by eating of the forbidden fruit, and losse of Paradise, his very substance was corrupted and deprived of Life Spiritual: and all his Powers or Faculties not only corrupted, but distuned.
1802, Charles Lamb, John Woodvil, Act IV, in The Works of Charles Lamb, London: C. and J. Ollier, 1818, Volume 1, p. 146, O most distuned, and distempered world, where sons talk their aged fathers into their graves!
词源
From dis- + tune.
来源:wiktionary