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    A hornpipe is an old lively dance that sailors were famous for, and it is also the tune you dance it to. Picture someone on a wooden ship, jumping and tapping, arms out — that is the usual picture, whether or not every sailor really danced it every night. The word first named an old pipe instrument whose open end was sometimes made of horn; the dance and the music then took the instrument’s name. You still hear it at folk nights and in pirate films more than in daily speech. It is not a pipe you blow in traffic, and it is not a horn you honk.

    號笛舞(也指那支舞曲)

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組成horn + pipe. Named for an old pipe instrument whose open end (the bell) was sometimes made of horn. The dance and the music took the instrument’s name.

同家族的字

  • hornthe old instrument’s open end was sometimes made of horn
  • pipea wind instrument — the dance is named after that old pipe

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

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hornpipenoun

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.

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    A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.

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    A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.

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    Music played to the hornpipe dance

hornpipeverb

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    To dance the hornpipe.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。