词族 · tuning
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英语词源
- tuning (n.)
- 1550s, "action of putting in tune," verbal noun from tune (v.). Of motors, from 1863. Tuning fork attested from 1776, supposedly invented by John Shore (d.1753), royal trumpeter.
[Shore] was a man of humour and pleasantry, and was the original inventor of the tuning-fork, an instrument which he constantly carried about him, and used to tune his lute by, and which whenever he produced it gave occasion to a pun. At a concert he would say, "I have not about me a pitch-pipe, but I have what will do as well to tune by, a pitch-fork." [Sir John Hawkins, "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music," London, 1776]
权威例句
- 1. There's a lot of fine-tuning to be done yet.
- 还需要作出很多微调。
- 2. I could hear the sound of a band tuning up.
- 我能听到乐队调音的声音。
- 3. Others were quietly tuning up their instruments.
- 其他人正静静地为他们的乐器调音。
- 4. Auto-tuning VHF receivers are now common in cars.
- 自动调节甚高频接收器现在普遍应用于汽车。
- 5. They are tuning up a plane on the flight line.
- 他们正在机场的飞机跑道上调试一架飞机.