| 釋義 |
reed /ri:d; rid/ n [C] 1 (tall, firm stem or stalk of) kinds of coarse, firm-stemmed, jointed grasses growing in or near water; [U] (collective) mass of such grasses growing together; (pl) dried stalks used for thatching. 蘆董 (桿); (集合用法) 蘆葦叢; (復) 干廣桿 (用于蓋屋頂) 。 - broken ~, (fig) an unreliable person or thing. (喻) 不可靠的人或物。 2 (in some wind-instruments, eg the oboe, bassoon, clarinet and in some organ-pipes) strip of metal, etc that vibrates to produce sound. (某些管樂器,如雙簧管,低音管,豎笛,某些風琴管中之) 顧動以發(fā)出聲音的部分; 簧。 the ~s, ~ instruments of this sort. 簧樂器。 ~y adj 1 abounding in ~ s (1). 多蘆葦的。 2 (of sounds, voices) shrill; piping. (指聲音) 細而尖的; 尖銳的。 |