英语词汇“lyre”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lyre

/lʌɪə

noun

A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa.We also had this ‘wind harp,’ a lyre with gut strings, that we'd de-tuned and stuck out in the wind on the truck....

The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French lire and Latin lyra from Greek lura.

单词	lyre
释义	lyre /lʌɪə / noun A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa.We also had this ‘wind harp,’ a lyre with gut strings, that we'd de-tuned and stuck out in the wind on the truck.... The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery. These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum. Origin Middle English: via Old French lire and Latin lyra from Greek lura. Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah
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lyre

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