Skip to main content

triple-tongue

/trip-uhl-tuhng/US // ˈtrɪp əlˌtʌŋ //

三舌,三舌音,三舌音符

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tri·ple-tongued, tri·ple-tongu·ing.Music.

    • : to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.

Examples

  • After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.

  • Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.

  • The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.

  • Elderly women played Triple Double Diamond and Tiki Magic while they chain-smoked.

  • The wine-producing countries of Spain, Italy, and France, suggest limits that are double and triple that of the U.S.

  • “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

  • Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

  • If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.