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lullaby

/luhl-uh-bahy/US // ˈlʌl əˌbaɪ //UK // (ˈlʌləˌbaɪ) //

催眠曲,摇篮曲,催泪曲,枕边曲

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lull·a·bies.

    • : a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
    • : any lulling song.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lull·a·bied, lull·a·by·ing.

    • : to lull with or as with a lullaby.

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Examples

  • They found the perfect lullaby on YouTube — “12 hours puppy sleeping music” — that prepared him for nap time.

  • Fatherhood crops up in his lyrics from time to time, as in a hidden track on the “Breach” album, a lullaby addressed to his “baby bird” set to a chiming, music-box tune.

  • They write that four song types are heard in every society—love songs, lullabies, healing songs, dance songs.

  • He was particularly intrigued by the fourth type, lullabies.

  • Listeners had little trouble telling dance songs from lullabies or healing songs, given their tempos and beats.

  • But then that night, Dad played it back to me in bed, like a lullaby, my own recorded voice singing myself to sleep.

  • Washington loves a lullaby—like the one about both sides deserving blame for the decline in bipartisanship.

  • Gervais sings Elmo a “celebrity lullaby” and even offers him a “celebrity cup of milk.”

  • It was depressing to think of going to bed in such circumstances with the yelling of an Arctic storm for a lullaby.

  • A child's preference for the mother's singing is, perhaps, a half reminiscence of the soft-low tones of the lullaby.

  • Twas a quiet sea, breaking, in crooning lullaby, upon the rocks below my bedroom window.

  • The night winds sing her lullaby, and little children hear the music of her voice and look into her answering eyes.

  • She gave the gun to Polly, and told her to walk up and down the porch with it and sing a lullaby.