| 单词 | to twang the same string |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto twang the same string a. intransitive. To produce a ringing note by or as by plucking a string or stringed instrument; hence (in depreciative sense) to play on a stringed instrument. to twang (all) upon one string, to twang the same string: cf. harp v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > strum twangle1558 thrum1592 twang1594 thrumble1685 strum1785 tum-tum1866 rum-strum1872 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. iv. (song) Then I wish'd for a noyse Of crack-halter Boyes, On Those hempen strings to be twanging. 1624 J. Gee New Shreds Old Snare 18 The plots of their Comedies twang all vpon one string. a1669 H. Foulis Hist. Romish Treasons (1671) ii. iv. 103 Both twang upon the same string. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 92 The musicians were still there,..scraping and twanging away. 1885 Christian World 15 Jan. 38/5 They took to twanging away on what seemed an inferior kind of guitar. < as lemmas |
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