名詞 xylophone:

1. a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
   同義詞：marimba

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n.Music （名詞）【音樂】
A percussion instrument consisting of a mounted row of wooden bars graduated in length to sound a chromatic scale, played with two small mallets.
木琴：一種打擊樂器，由逐級加長的一排排鑲嵌的木棒組成，并發(fā)出半音音階，用兩個小木槌敲擊

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xy.lophon.ist
n.（名詞）
<注釋>Xylophone is a word one expects to encounter in the X section of any children`s alphabet book. It is there because it is one of the few words beginning withx that a child or most anyone else would know. Recognition ofxerophagy, .the eating of dry food, especially as a form of fasting practiced in the early Christian Church and chiefly in the Eastern churches today,. orxylotomy, .the preparation of sections of wood for microscopic study. is not to be expected. Most of the English words beginning withx, including these obscurities, are of Greek origin,thex, pronounced (z), representing the Greek letter xi. In the case ofxylophone, xylo- is a form meaning .wood,. derived from Greekxulon, .wood,. and-phone represents Greek phônô, .voice, sound,. the same element found in words such astelephone, microphone, and megaphone. Our famousx word is first recorded in the April 7, 8'', edition of theAthenaeum : .A prodigy . . . who does wonderful things with little drumsticks on a machine of wooden keys, called the ‘xylophone.’.
Xylophone 是一個能在兒童字母書的X部分遇到的單詞。 因為它是兒童或最多人知道的少數(shù)幾個以x 開頭的單詞之一。 承認(rèn)xerophagy， .吃不含葷與酒的食物，尤其指早期基督教會和現(xiàn)今東正教進行齋戒的一種形式，. 或xylotomy， .制備供顯微鏡檢查用的木材切片.，這兩個單詞在兒童書里是看不到的。 大部分以x 開頭的英語單詞， 包括那些起源于希臘文的含義模糊的詞，x， 發(fā)音為(z)，代表希臘字母xi。 在xytophone，xylo- 中的意思是.木頭.， 起源于希臘語的xulon， .木頭.， 而-phone 正是希臘語 phone, 意思是.聲音，噪音.， 同樣的因素也可以在象telephone, microphone， 和 megaphone 等單詞里找到。 眾所周知的含x 的單詞最早有記載于8''年4月7日， Athenaeum 的版本中有.一個不平凡的人…他用小鼓槌在木健的機器上干出了精彩的事，那東西叫‘木琴’.