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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.
曼陀林（撥弦樂器）
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，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。
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.
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。