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tin·tin·nab·u·la·tion
tIn tih nae by leI shn
Noun
1. the sound of a bell ringing;
"the distinctive ring of the church bell"
"the ringing of the telephone"
"the tintinnabulation that so volumnously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells"--E. A. Poe
"钟声",1823年,源自拉丁语 tintinnabulum "钟",来自 tintinnare "响铃,叮当作响"(重复形式 tinnire "响铃",来自模拟基础)+工具后缀 -bulum。英语中早期的形式是形容词 tintinnabulary(1787), tintinnabulatory(1827)和名词 tintinnabulum "小铃铛"(14世纪晚期)。
Latin tintinnabulum bell, from tintinnare to ring, jingle, from tinnire
The first known use of tintinnabulation was in 1831
titillateverb
tickle entry 1 sense 1
to excite pleasurably
titannoun
capitalized one of a family of giants overthrown by the gods of ancient Greece
one of gigantic size, power, or achievement
tirelessadjective
seeming never to get tired
a tireless worker
tintinnabulationnoun
the ringing of bells or a similar sound
1 How they jingle, jingle, ever blithe and ever clear, With a tintinnabulation that so musically wells As it thrills, and it thrills upon the ear!
2 Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.
3 Me—He and Tommie Marshall are with us to the last tintinnabulation of the gong.
4 At this moment Mr. Mayor, already wakened and discomposed by the violent tintinnabulation, rushed out: 'What!' said he, 'am I awake?
5 Midnight had some time passed when everybody was awakened—but that gradually—by a tintinnabulation of silvery bells.
6 Under these circumstances, a philosopher has to open the front door himself, or submit to a prolonged tintinnabulation.
7 The delicate tintinnabulation of Adasiewicz’s vibes dovetailed with Reed’s telegraphic drum work, Reid’s amber cellos lines, Johnson’s silvery trumpet phrases and Heinemann’s warmly resonant bass.
8 There rang in the pure, thin air only the noise of the champing bits and the tintinnabulation of the bells attached to the hairy Finnish ponies' collars.
9 The sound of a tread, light as a whisper, approached through the heavy stillness, with a drowsy tinkling of pagals, a tintinnabulation of anklets.
10 Even as I basked in the fortune of my life, loneliness performed its gentle tintinnabulations.
11 The seventh, eighth, and ninth lines are as follows: To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells—From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
12 The duo offered a hauntingly lovely interpretation of the work, an example of what Mr. Pärt calls tintinnabulation: a slow, introspective style that often evokes the pealing of bells.
13 They begin their brazen tintinnabulations at breakfast time, and ring on, at intervals, until past the supper hour.
14 Without climbing to the attic I could not get so far away that the tintinnabulation that so mercilessly wells from those bells, bells, bells did not penetrate.
15 From the bottom of the twelve-story well a faint, shrill tintinnabulation echoed up to him.
16 But the ensemble's even more enticing draw may be their own compositions, which blend dreamy rhythmic tattoos with otherworldly tintinnabulations.
17 This, as she heard the ancient clock in the square turret which overlooked the Tudor courtyard give forth a mellow tintinnabulation.
18 Keeping tune, tune, tune To the tintinnabulation of the spoon.
19 Tourists were defiling in caravans, with horses, guides, mules, veils green and blue, and a tintinnabulation of canteens as the animals ambled, the ice-picks marking each step on the cobble-stones.
20 Two dozen billiard balls roll on tracks, striking a series of devices that set off a tintinnabulation of bells, chimes and metallic clinks.