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ukulele

/yoo-kuh-ley-lee; Hawaiian oo-koo-ley-ley/US // ˌyu kəˈleɪ li; Hawaiian ˌu kʊˈleɪ leɪ //UK // (ˌjuːkəˈleɪlɪ) //

尤克里里琴,乌克丽丽,乌克丽丽琴,尤克里里

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small, guitarlike musical instrument associated chiefly with Hawaiian music.

Examples

  • We had our daughter start ukulele this year because classes were held outdoors with each kid confined inside hula-hoops spaced six feet apart.

  • Also, hiking isn’t as fun when you’re carrying 25 pounds of equipment, a sword, and a ukulele.

  • To their credit, I don’t think any of them expected to see a man with a ukulele and a sword hiking alongside them that Sunday.

  • So she added unrelated goals — practice her ukulele, decorate her crutches and paint a jewelry tray.

  • Duckworth wrote 15-page letters to friends and practiced her ukulele.

  • Trainor brought along a ukulele to her audition and blew him away.

  • There are few things cuter than a little kid killing it on the ukulele.

  • Bernice saw that Warren's eyes had left a ukulele he had been tinkering with and were fixed on her questioningly.

  • Somebody began to play a ukulele, and gay voices took up the tune.

  • But Fulaanu lounged with her ukulele, surrounded by amorous sailors who gazed longingly into her eyes.

  • Returning home for a canned luncheon she discovered Gaylord humming a love song and strumming on his ukulele.

  • From within, through the open window, came the tinkling of Tom's ukulele and the rollicking lilt of his voice in an Hawaiian hula.