Violin

(noun.) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow.

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• The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is really the presence or absence of overtones which enables us to distinguish the note of the piano from that of the violin, flute, or clarinet. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He was in a genial humor, and played the violin for me for about two hours--$2000 worth. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• One night he came with his violin, about twelve o'clock. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He would talk with me, but I never asked him to bring his violin. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Oh, Andronico, that old man with the violin, can pick up anything by ear. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Moreover, the most delicate notes of a violin can be heard in the remotest corners of a concert hall, when not the slightest motion of the air can be seen or felt. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The viola is larger than the violin, has heavier and thicker strings, and is pitched to a lower key; in all other respects the two are similar. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If the stretched string is plucked with the fingers or bowed with the violin bow, a clear musical sound of definite pitch will be produced. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If there were but one string, only one pitch could be sounded at any one time; the additional strings of the violin allow of the simultaneous production of several tones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• What has been said of the piano applies as well to the violin, guitar, and mandolin. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Touch the middle of a wire with the finger or a pencil (Fig. 182), thus separating it into two portions and draw a violin bow across the center of either half. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• For an hour he droned away upon his violin, endeavouring to soothe his own ruffled spirits. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The violoncello, because of the length and thickness of its strings, is pitched a whole octave lower than the violin; otherwise it is similar. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They were in the ballroom, the violins were playing, and her mind was in a flutter that forbade its fixing on anything serious. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I went to their church, where I was entertained with good music, the organ being accompanied with violins, haut-boys, flutes, clarinets, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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