xylophone

• n. 木琴

xylo-,木质，木头，-phone,声音，用做乐器名。比较vibraphone,celesta.

xylophone

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.)).

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.

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2. This is a xylophone.

这是一架木琴.

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3. I play the xylophone, fun, fun.

我弹起扬琴, 有趣 、 有趣.

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4. Listen to xylophone music from 1921.

听听看来1921年的木琴音乐吧!

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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.

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