| 单词 | untune |
| 例句 | I said, “I fear the humidity has untuned me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His voice was a whine that sounded like an untuned fiddle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At National Sawdust, he will perform an intimate augmented solo set that asks audiences to “reconcile untuned guitar noise and ballad singing.” Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z And Bill just sat down by my little untuned, school piano and started playing it. We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time 2011-10-26T13:25:58Z Still, Judis would surely wave aside these objections as typical liberal fastidiousness, untuned to the more elemental, raw longings of national identity that liberals need to accommodate fast. Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Her albums — particularly “Energy Field” from 2010, which occasionally calls to mind drum-less heavy metal or an untuned violin — unfurl as tone poems, giving her changing surroundings a spiritual gravitas. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z We crowded into the steamy back room, beers in hand, so close to Wrembel that I could have reached out and untuned his guitar. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Despite widespread criticisms of punk at the time — untuned guitars, bad playing of instruments, too much screaming — Zientara maintained an optimism about where the music would go. Once the ‘Abbey Road’ of D.C.’s punk scene, it’s being bulldozed for a government-sanctioned arts district 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z The report also criticized the use of static from an untuned radio, sleep deprivation, forced medication of one detainee, and unsatisfactory arrangements for lavatory visits during which one prisoner may have remained handcuffed. Nine Captured Iraqis Were Mistreated in British Custody, Report Says 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z For a while they were the biggest lions among all the angels, and harps hung untuned and neglected in their presence. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z When he came up, he saluted them in a harsh and untuned voice, but with a civil air. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z These persons are so untuned as to be unable to understand the messages of the holy spirit. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z Exactly the same kind of effect is produced by witnessing fashionable amusements, with a spirit untuned to pleasure. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The idea was to try to keep everything just the way it was … not to let the strings become untuned. Lewis Lapham on "the end of capitalism" 2010-09-23T14:01:00Z "So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky." The Bible Story It is difficult to dance on uneven ground, in the middle of the day, to the sound of an untuned old harp, and a violin held upside down, and scraped by a melancholy boy. Anne It is as though the jar given to the nervous system had untuned us for the entire world, and all things come amiss. That Boy Of Norcott's These things "come not by observation"; but Dumas, like Scott, had a mind not untuned to such themes, though not superstitious. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 But Ignorance, of darkness dire, Has o'er that land a mantle spread; And all untuned and rude the lyre That sounds beneath its gloomy shade. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Anne’s untuned ear could make little of the girl’s voluble replies to her questions, for the West Indian negroes used one gender only, and made a limited vocabulary cover all demands. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 "I will give her some music," answered Lina, springing up and taking her guitar from a sofa, where it had been lying, neglected and untuned; "mamma shall have a serenade." Mabel's Mistake Why must all go humming into oblivion like untuned values? Melomaniacs Golden days are gone forever, Days now dark and dreary be; Harps untuned and silent ever, Silent by the moaning sea. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity As well ask me to play in concert on an untuned instrument. A Woman's Will Though not a spark of true poetic fire Beamed at my birth, or on my cradle fell, Though rude my numbers, and untuned my lyre, I will not leave thee with a mute farewell. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I It is not involved as a necessity, for untuned currents may be broadcast at voice-controlled frequencies, directly and without any carrier wave. The Airlords of Han O time’s extremity, Hast thou so crack’d and splitted my poor tongue In seven short years, that here my only son Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares? The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] And if her tone was conventional, it fell upon ears untuned to conventions. The Californians To my ear the untune is agony; to my music, a discord in my day is death to what would have been written that day. A Woman's Will Their natural tendency, from the very base of British society, and through all its strongly built gradations, is to look upward: they are not apt to "untune degree." Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Like untuned golden strings all women are, Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar. Hero and Leander Again and again that shout arose, till the wild birds rose screaming over our heads, in untuned, yet exciting chorus. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History It reminds us of Beethoven evolving his majestic sonatas on an untuned and dilapidated old piano, the defects of which he could not himself hear. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Her voice shrilled suddenly loud and harsh, like an untuned string under the bow. An Alabaster Box Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Nay, there was no eye shaded, there was no voice untuned for the glad music of that time. Hills of the Shatemuc What is past I pardon, Because I made the key to unlock thy railing; But if thou dar'st once more be so untuned I'll sent thee to the galleys. The Noble Spanish Soldier It made her unconsciously modulate her own, which as yet had the untuned accents of early girlhood; but the spell was on her, and she felt, for the first time, at a loss for words. Bluebell A Novel A cluster of drunken vocalists, sitting flat upon the ground, but almost unable to hold themselves upright, were singing horribly to untuned guitars. In Indian Mexico (1908) Wogan was startled as he understood the reason of her harp becoming so suddenly untuned. Clementina Earth stops the ears I best had loved to please; Then break, ye untuned chords, or rust in peace! The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell A dwarf creature perched on a piano stool teased the keys of an untuned piano and drew forth adorable melody, skipping the broken notes with great agility. The Soul of the War He did not, as has been said of Horace, wilfully untune his harp when he commenced satirist. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author At nine o'clock he went downstairs, tapped civilly at the door of the front parlour, and by an untuned voice was bidden enter. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories My long neglected lyre I'll take, And seek its echoes to awake; But it hath lain untuned so long, Scarce can I hope to frame a song. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland You bid the minstrel strike the lute, And wake once more a soothing tone— Alas! its strings, untuned, are mute, Or only echo moan for moan. Poems Mr. Tyrrel would have gone also; his mind was untuned, and he did not take the pleasure he had been accustomed to take in the musical performances of Emily. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Come through the prate of foolish words, The science with no God behind; Through all the pangs of untuned chords Speak wisdom to my shaken mind. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 Solemnly it went— Thy voice, Truth's herald, walking the untuned roar, Calm and distinct, powerful and sweet and fine: I loved and listened, listened and loved more. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 Slowly, gently, most sorrowfully through the golden air cleaves a voice that is somewhat a wail, yet not untuned by love. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Here still she dwells, and here her votaries stroll; But disappointed hope untunes the soul: Restraints unfelt whilst hours of rapture flow, When troubles press, to chains and barriers grow. The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem This blooming maid in virtue's path to guide ������ The admiring parents all their care applied; ������ Her spotless soul to soft affection train'd, ������ No voice untuned, no sickening folly stain'd! The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes It is the wound in the affections which untunes the jarring senses of 'this child-changed father.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded He had an untuned voice and could never hear himself without disgust. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Such luxury untunes the mind for doing and suffering. Miscellaneous Essays Only he can in sorrow bear a part With untaught hand and with untuned heart. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 O spirit-harp that, untouched, untuned, To each subtle influence thrills, As thrills some wild, Aeolian harp, To the breezes that sweep the hills!— Poems of the Heart and Home Follow her in thought, feeling, and action, as those stammering, untuned tongues do in melody, and the blight of evil will pass from your life. Opening a Chestnut Burr The master of the mansion was suffering under a touch of the gout, accompanied by a gnawing tooth-ache!—The horrid noise without made his trembling nerves jangle like the loose strings of an untuned guitar. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 02 Such passions as anger, hatred, jealousy, sorrow, worry, grudge, and fear always untune one's mood and break the harmony of one's mind. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan Cease, cease, harsh tongue: untuned music, rest; Entomb thy sorrows in thy hollow breast. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 Read, read thyself, dear Virgil; let not me Profane one accent with an untuned tongue: Best matter, badly shewn, shews worse than bad. The Poetaster Prayer is the secret, to myself I said, Strong supplication must call down the charm, And thus with untuned heart I feebly prayed, Knocking at Heaven's gate with earth-palsied arm. The Christian Year So, Mr. Quimbleton," he said, in a harsh and untuned voice, "You come comparatively sober. In the Sweet Dry and Dry Now both the Newhaven men and their rivals are agreed that this song lifts them through more work than untuned fishermen can manage. Christie Johnstone Broken, untuned as it was, there yet lurked in that voice a tone of its old music, there beamed in that vacant and heavy eye a ray of its native gentleness. Antonina As she untunes the lute by "pinching" the strings over-excitedly with her right, her other hand retunes it by turning the pegs. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 The dreary sounds of crowded earth, The cries of camp or town, Never untuned his lonely mirth, Nor drew his visions down. The Christian Year Holyday is not afraid to say that there was never such a fall as from his odes to his satires, and that he, injuriously to himself, untuned his harp. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry She did not understand that, her heaven being dark, she could see no individual cloud against it, that, her emotional nature untuned, discord itself had ceased to jar. Sir Gibbie Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows! Troilus and Cressida But this is nothing to what follows; for being obliged to make his sense intelligible, we are forced to untune our own verses that we may give his meaning to the reader. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry |
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