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oboe

/oh-boh/US // ˈoʊ boʊ //UK // (ˈəʊbəʊ) //

双簧管,双簧

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double-reed mouthpiece.
    • : a reed stop with a sound like that of an oboe.

Examples

  • For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

  • Boring math geniuses, oboe-playing poets, and rich kids from New York need not apply.

  • Rich kids from New York, boring Asian math geniuses, and oboe-playing poets need not apply.

  • A musical prodigy, seven years old, who will order the fifth oboe out of the Albert Hall as soon as look at him.

  • It is the timid oboe that sounds the A for the orchestra to tune by.

  • The young man in the red velvet cap plays on the violoncello; the other on the oboe, of which only the reed is visible.

  • He also had lessons in the vestry room of the Octagon Chapel; and he acquired some skill upon the flute and oboe from Mr. Fish.

  • An oboe of ivory, carved by Anciuti in Milan, beginning of the eighteenth century.