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strum

/struhm/US // strʌm //UK // (strʌm) //

敲击,敲击声,敲打,弦乐

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    strummed, strum·ming.

    • : to play on by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
    • : to produce by such playing: to strum a tune.
v.无主动词 verb
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    strummed, strum·ming.

    • : to play on a stringed musical instrument by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act of strumming.
    • : the sound produced by strumming.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • An airy acoustic guitar begins to strum; a synthesized orchestra begins to swell.

  • When Guy answered affirmatively, the stranger brought Guy to his apartment to strum some tunes for his wife.

  • Angel was the possessor of a flute-like treble, and he could strum some sort of accompaniment on the piano to any song.

  • Almost every working-man has his girls taught to strum the piano.

  • They seemed to blaze, so bright were the colors, and so brilliant the jewels strum over the rich materials.

  • Around the hive the air was thick with the whirring mass and filled with the thrilling strum of innumerable wings.

  • There might he strum his heart out in the old way, and the world would never hear, for it has lost the ear for this kind of song.