xylophone

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n. 木琴

发音

UK /ˈzaɪ.ləˌfəʊn/
US /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

词形变化

xylophones 复数 xylophones xylophoned xylophones 三单 xylophoning xylophoning 现在分词 xylophoned 过去式 xylophoned 过去分词

别名

Xyl. zylophone

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    木琴

    音乐

    All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

v.
  1. 1.

    To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

  2. 2.

    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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

marimba

上位词 1

percussion instrument

相关短语

stone xylophone

词源

From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).

来源：wiktionary