词族 · xylophone
词形变化
中文词源
xylophone 木琴
xylo-,木质，木头，-phone,声音，用做乐器名。比较vibraphone,celesta.
英语词源
- xylophone
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xylophone: [19] Etymologically, a xylophone makes ‘sounds’ from ‘wood’. The term was coined in the 1860s from Greek xúlon ‘wood’ (an allusion to the instrument’s tuned wooden bars) and the combining form -phone ‘sound’.
- xylophone (n.)
- 1866, coined from Greek xylon "wood" (see xylo-) + phone "a sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).
权威例句
- 1. The length of the bars of the xylophone determines the different notes of the scale.
- 木琴琴键的长度决定音阶的不同音调.
- 2. This is a xylophone.
- 这是一架木琴.
- 3. I play the xylophone, fun, fun.
- 我弹起扬琴, 有趣 、 有趣.
- 4. Listen to xylophone music from 1921.
- 听听看来1921年的木琴音乐吧!
- 5. I never played it before but I knew it had the same keyboards as the xylophone.
- 我以前从未弹奏过电颤琴,但我知道它的键盘与木琴的一样.