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A tambourine — a small hand drum with a skin stretched over a round frame, often with little metal discs round the edge that jingle when you shake or hit it. The thing itself is ordinary; the word is not. Timbrel is old, and today you meet it almost only in the Bible and in poetry and hymns — Miriam takes a timbrel in her hand, people praise God with timbrel and dance. If you saw one in a shop today you would call it a tambourine. So treat timbrel as a reading word: know it when you see it, but do not use it to talk about a modern band.
手鼓、鈴鼓(=tambourine 的古語,聖經和詩歌裡才會看到;現在講樂器一律說 tambourine)。
組成A 'little timbre': Old French timbre (a drum) plus the small-making ending -el. Behind it is Latin tympanum, a drum.
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。
timbrelnoun/ˈtɪmbɹəl/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicAn ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
- Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe, The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast, With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul To forms of beauty […]
- "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
timbrelverb/ˈtɪmbɹəl/
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To play the timbrel.
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To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
- with timbrelled anthems
- Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]
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。