Chime

(noun.) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument.

(verb.) emit a sound; 'bells and gongs chimed'.

巴兹尔录入

• Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• How I should chime in with their manners over there! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Her singing was less remarkable, but also well trained, and sweet to hear as a chime perfectly in tune. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Let it chime for ever. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The chime mechanism is sometimes so constructed that it may be played like a piano, but with the fist instead of the fingers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It struck twelve--I waited till the time-piece had concluded its silver chime, and the clock its hoarse, vibrating stroke, and then I proceeded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• If your inclinations chime with your sense of duty--' Harry began. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• How do Chimes Strike the Hour? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Not an atom,' chimes in Brewer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Do the chimes of the distant church bells lead one to the house of worship? 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Chimes are ordinarily produced mechanically by the strokes of hammers against a series of bells, tuned agreeably to a given musical scale. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighboring clock. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Mr. Pickwick had meditated himself into a doze, when he was roused by the chimes of the neighbouring church ringing out the hour--half-past eleven. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Light broke, movement gathered, chimes pealed--to what was I coming? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mr Riderhood very slowly and hoarsely chimed in, with several retrospective nods of his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And stand a gallon of beer down,' chimed in Mr. Simpson. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr Riderhood chimed in, as before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was a simple sentence--very artlessly, a little timidly, pronounced; but it chimed in harmony to the youth's nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Married already, Mrs. Bute chimed in; and both sate with clasped hands looking from each other at their victim. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The minds of the two girls being toned in harmony often chimed very sweetly together. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I cannot possibly countenance any such inconsistent proceeding, chimed in the Dowager Ingram. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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