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xylophone

/zahy-luh-fohn/US // ˈzaɪ ləˌfoʊn //UK // (ˈzaɪləˌfəʊn) //

木琴,木马,木耳,木鱼琴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars, usually sounded by striking with small wooden hammers.

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Examples

  • By year three, she writes, her students are practicing self-control using a xylophone and trying to be attentive to musical cues.

  • As a cursor pans from left to right across the image of the galactic center, showing a 400-light-year expanse, Chandra X-ray observations, played on the xylophone, trace filaments of superhot gas.

  • I later learned to play the xylophone, the violin and the saxophone.

  • After much thought and reflection, I have decided to pursue my first loves--modern dance and the xylophone.

  • My ribs are like a xylophone, and the knobs of my spine stick up like ponderous cairns in the landscape of my back.

  • It thrashed its bony arms impatiently and its ribs rattled like a xylophone.

  • So they began to cuss, amiable, and throw down dollars on the bar till it sounded like a selection on the xylophone.

  • The neighbouring forest was soon echoing the strident notes of xylophone, banjo, ocarina and trombone.

  • A very good idea of the psaltery and dulcimer may be obtained from the xylophone.

  • Saint-Saëns has even utilized the barbarous xylophone, whose proper place is the variety hall, in his "Danse Macabre."