| 释义 |
tol-de-rol, tol de rol|tɒl dɪ rɒl|
Also in extended form tol de rol lol.
A combination of syllables used as the refrain of a song, and hence as an exclamation of jollity, or the like. Also as n. and attrib.
1765H. Timberlake Mem. 56 Just like the toldederols [sic] of many old English songs. 1782H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husb. iv. ii, Tol-de-rol! Ah, that won't do—that won't do! You can't hide it. 1797F. Reynolds The Will v. ii, What, Mandeville! Howard! all together! all reconciled!—Tol de rol lol! 1798Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tales of Hoy Wks. 1816 IV. 18 Let us have something in the tol-de-roll-loll-way—funny. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 40 Some scribes who write fast, and are flippant at rhymes, Think Genius is center'd in tol-de-rol chimes. 1861D. Cook P. Foster's D. i, The policeman sings a sort of a ‘tol de rol’. 1889Grove's Dict. Mus. IV. 805 Ture-lure.., or Toure-loure, a very ancient lyrical burden or refrain..still survives in English popular music in the forms ‘tooral-looral-looral’, and ‘tol-de-rol’. |