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harping

/hahr-ping/US // ˈhɑr pɪŋ //

弹琴,竖琴,竖琴演奏,竖笛

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Shipbuilding.

    • : any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.

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Examples

  • “For three months he had been harping on that he had made a mistake and had lost his way,” she writes in May 2014.

  • Harping about a Republican war on women while wages stagnate and growth sputters is trivial and desperate.

  • So are my Marlboros, which my wife has been harping on ever since I started up smoking again.

  • There is nothing to be gained by harping on about events in 2002, however disconcerting those events were.

  • The sequester, tax increases, and the continual Republican harping on budget cuts have all caused damage to the labor market.

  • "Oh, so you are still harping on that string," said the younger sage sadly, for he thought his senior was following an idle dream.

  • Also, his harping on Withers' possible guilt struck him as absurd when he considered the strength of the case against Perry.

  • This was a danger, but I did not choose to make it worse by harping on it.

  • Miss Lucretia's harp; she never played on it now, and harping was out of fashion, so it would not be wanted for Amy.

  • Instead of looking to a restoration to his throne, I found him always harping on the fear of French invasion.