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double-tongue

/duhb-uhl-tuhng/US // ˈdʌb əlˌtʌŋ //

双关语,双舌,双关,舌尖上的中国

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dou·ble-tongued, dou·ble-tongu·ing.Music.

    • : to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and k alternately, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.

Examples

  • And Ollie says, ‘Oh, I see, well, let me have two double vodka martinis.’

  • After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.

  • A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.

  • Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.

  • He went on to say that even such double horrors had never kept cops from continuing on.

  • “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

  • Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

  • The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.