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    An oboe is a long, thin wooden pipe that you play by blowing. At the top there is a double reed: two small pieces of cane that shake against each other when the air goes through. That is why the sound is thin, a little like speaking through the nose, and quite high — not round and soft like a flute. You mostly meet it in an orchestra or a wind band; it often plays the note that everyone else tunes to at the start of a concert. English used to call it a hautboy. Around 1770 people began writing the Italian spelling oboe instead. The older French name hautbois just means “high wood”: a high-pitched woodwind. It is not a clarinet. A clarinet has one reed; an oboe has two, and the sound is sharper.

組成Adopted into English around 1770 from Italian oboè, which was how Italian wrote the French word hautbois: haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) + bois (“wood”). English had already been using the older form hautboy.

同家族的字

  • oboistthe person who plays an oboe
  • hautboythe older English name for the same instrument

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。

Oboenoun

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    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter O.

oboenoun/ˈəʊbəʊ/

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

    • Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.
    • This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • off-by-one error

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