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/ˈtʃeloʊ/ · /ˈtʃeləʊ/
A musical instrument that looks like a large violin. You sit down and hold it between your knees, and you play it by pulling a bow (a special stick) across its strings.
大提琴
複數 cellos
核心畫面
You can picture a big violin that is too large to hold under your chin, so the player sits down and lets it rest between the knees, its tail-pin on the floor, while the bow is drawn across the strings at chest height. The size is the whole point: a bigger body of wood holds more air, and more air means a lower, warmer, more human-sounding voice.
一把「大到抱不動的小提琴」：因為太大，夾不到下巴底下，演奏者只好坐下來，把它立在地上、夾在兩膝之間，用弓在胸前的高度…更多收起
一把「大到抱不動的小提琴」：因為太大，夾不到下巴底下，演奏者只好坐下來，把它立在地上、夾在兩膝之間，用弓在胸前的高度拉過琴弦。大小就是關鍵——木頭做的琴身越大，裡面裝的空氣越多，聲音就越低、越暖，聽起來最接近人聲的音域。這個字本身也帶著這個「大」的痕跡：它是義大利文 violoncello 的簡寫，一路上就只留下了尾巴那一小截。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cellonoun詞源 1/ˈtʃɛləʊ/
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A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
- I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away.
- And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
cellonoun詞源 2/ˈsɛləʊ/
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cellophane
- Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to^([sic]) the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。