unmusical

1 Running deliberately against composers’ intentions, again and again over the decades, Mr. Taylor has repeatedly run the risk of being called unmusical.

2 Mr. van Dantzig’s choreography, imbued with oddities here and there, was repetitive and frequently unmusical; it seemed to unfold in slow motion, and the cast responded with hesitant, mannered dancing.

3 Mr. Glass’s piano études have been criticized as unmusical, or even boring.

4 Whatever else Mrs. Clarke intended to say was drowned out by the rising wail of a most unpleasant sound—high-pitched, unhinged, emanating from the vicinity of the piano yet entirely unmusical.

5 Legs fly into sky-high extensions, the stage is giddy with pirouettes and the pale, romantic poetry of Swan Lake often feels revved into a frantic, unmusical St Vitus dance.

6 Indeed, can we not say of Kafka, that far from being unmusical, he was far too musical for the conventional music to which he was at first subjected?

7 I felt thoroughly unmusical, and did nothing but eat and sleep, and that revived me.

8 To prevent listeners from being disoriented by the otherwise unmusical plot suddenly switching to song, the music is always placed at the end of an episode; the same is true of Coss’ show.

9 Some folk traditions are a chore to listen to, simple and unmusical.

10 If, today, you go to YouTube and listen to people who have spoken Esperanto from early childhood, you will hear something that sounds vaguely Eastern European and, though unmusical, perfectly O.K.

11 For more than a generation, the Metropolitan Opera has presented a series of genuinely dreadful “Don Giovanni” stagings: overproduced, silly, illogical and unmusical.

12 The Papal singers even are becoming old; they are almost all unmusical, and do not execute even the most established pieces in tune.

13 It had a chaotic, almost unmusical sound, without rhythm or form or progression, like the noise of nature.

14 Though the choreography hits the music’s big climaxes, it is often bizarrely unmusical: big traveling lifts kept recurring to quiet passages in the score, and so on.

15 Even the best teacher cannot get an unmusical student past simple piano exercises.

就算最好的老师也不能使一个没有音乐细胞的学生略过简单的钢琴练习阶段。

16 I can influence the sounds with my hands, but it’s neither a musical instrument, requiring skill, nor a toy, effortlessly spouting out unmusical noise.

17 Within a few paces of the organ-grinder, a little girl and boy danced indefatigably on the stones, to the unmusical music of his box.

18 By degrees he is sensible of a soft and not unmusical humming in the ears, at every pause of the conversation.

19 Luke Hickey is the flashiest, thrillingly so and never unmusical.

20 “And he never wrote a song in his life. Why? His family described him as ‘unmusical.’

1 走调

rough off-key

2 不合调

untuned tuneless out of tune

3 不懂音乐

have no ear for music

4 刺耳的

hard sharp dirty rugged metallic rude nasal jagged penetrating ragged grating brazen shrill strident hoarse discordant brassy raspy rasping earsplitting unmelodious untuneful earpiercing inconsonant scrannel untunable harsh rough piercing brittle raucous ear-piercing

5 不合调子的

tuneless

6 非音乐

immusical nonmusical nonmusic

7 走调的

rough off-key

8 难听的

rough unsweet unmelodious sandpapery squawky harsh ugly rugged sanguinary scrannel

9 非音乐的

immusical nonmusical

10 不和谐的

incongruous incongruent inharmonious anharmonic inharmonic incoordinate inconsonant untunable disharmonious off-key untuned tuneless unharmonious untuneful

11 不合调的

false untuned tuneless

12 难听

rough ugly rugged sanguinary unsweet scrannel roughness

13 不和谐

incongruous incongruent inharmonious anharmonic inharmonic incoordinate inconsonant untunable ajar incoordinately inconsonance dissonance disharmony incongruity incoordination incongruence disharmonious tunelessness disharmonize off-key untuned tuneless unharmonious untuneful out of tune

14 不悦耳的

rough dissonant noteless unvocal untunable unmelodiousness grainy untuneful discordant tuneless unmelodious