1. 1曼陀林(撥弦樂器)

    A mandolin is a small stringed instrument. The usual kind has eight metal strings in four pairs, a short neck, and a body with a round, bowl-like back. You play it with a — a small pick of plastic or metal — and it rings bright and high. You will hear it in folk music, in some classical pieces, and in country and . It is not a little guitar: it is lighter, the paired strings are part of the sound, and that round back is a clue if you see one.

組成From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, a diminutive of mandola, a larger stringed instrument: a “little mandola.”

同家族的字

  • mandolathe larger instrument; mandolin is the diminutive

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

mandolinnoun/ˈmændə(ˌ)lɪn/

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.

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    A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.

mandolinverb/ˈmændə(ˌ)lɪn/

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    To slice using a madolin; to julienne.

    • One Monday night I peeled potatoes over the sink, ready to mandolin them into thin slices and bake on top of a pie I had a recipe for in the newspaper on Saturday.

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