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lute

/loot/US // lut //UK // (luːt) //

琵琶,琵琶曲,琵琶声,琵琶声声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lut·ed, lut·ing.

    • : to play a lute.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    lut·ed, lut·ing.

    • : to perform on a lute: a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads.
    • : to express by means of a lute: The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy.

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Examples

  • However, DHS has not had a permanent deputy secretary in place since the spring, when Jane Holl Lute resigned.

  • Carper described Allen as a “very fine person” and said either Lute or Allen would be fine.

  • While several names have been floated for her replacement, on Capitol Hill, Lute and Allen have the most senior level support.

  • Carper said Lute would get through the Senate quickly and easily.

  • “I think Jane Holl Lute would be a terrific candidate, and I urge the president to consider her,” Carper said.

  • That done I went over the water and walked over the fields to Southwark, and so home and to my lute.

  • Here every breath was eloquence, every word a poem, and the voice of Mary sweeter than Musa's lute.

  • Up by five o'clock, and while my man Will was getting himself ready to come up to me I took and played upon my lute a little.

  • Parson Lute softly entered from the kitchen, wiping the rain from his face and hands, stepping on tiptoe over the bare floor.

  • And I said: What do I care for a kingdom in comparison with my lute?