Tune

(noun.) the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency.

(noun.) the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; 'he cannot sing in tune'; 'the clarinet was out of tune'.

(noun.) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; 'she was humming an air from Beethoven'.

(verb.) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); 'My piano needs to be tuned'.

(verb.) adjust for (better) functioning; 'tune the engine'.

录入:曼蒂

• But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The burden fell into a strain or tune as he stumped along the pavements. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He walked to the fireplace and warmed himself, humming the fag end of a tune in a rich convivial bass voice. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A woman should be able to sit down and play you or sing you a good old English tune. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He could play 'em a tune on any sort of pot you please, so as it was iron or block tin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She sometimes played tunes upon them with her fingers--minuets and marches I should think--but never moved them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In that case the operator tunes his instrument, or in other words adjusts his apparatus to suit the wave length of the station with which he wishes to communicate. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Insolvency, at all tunes the natural result of a spirited foreign policy, was close at hand. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Some good rousing tunes firSt. Rosamond played admirably. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He had heard fragments of tunes and songs in the warm wind, which he knew had no existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He was experimenting in tunes to suit some words of his own, sometimes trying a ready-made melody, sometimes improvising. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A flash of lightning is liable to give rise to a wave of enormous power which will set half the aerials on the earth vibrating in spite of the differences of pitch to which they are tuned. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I shall go to the piano-forte; I have not touched it since it was tuned. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• They tuned her voice to the note of torment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• 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.
• Methods of tuning the instruments have been adopted which limit the influence of the currents to properly tuned receivers and in this way some degree of secrecy is attained. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Frequent tuning is necessary, because the fine adjustments are easily disturbed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A song played on tuning forks instead of on strings would be lifeless and unsatisfying because of the absence of overtones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Fasten a stiff bristle to a tuning fork by means of wax, allowing the end of the point to rest lightly upon a piece of smoked glass. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Size and shape determine to a large degree the period of a body; for example, a short, thick tuning fork vibrates more rapidly than a tall slender fork. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There must therefore be accurate tuning of the two instruments. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They're beginning upstairs,' said the stranger--'hear the company-- fiddles tuning--now the harp--there they go. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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