单词 | didgeridoo |
释义 | didgeridoon. A musical instrument of Australian Aboriginal people, consisting of a long tube made from bamboo or a hollow sapling which is blown into to produce a resonant sound. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > other wind instruments > [noun] gora1822–4 drone pipe1905 didgeridoo1924 jug1946 molimo1957 melodica1961 yidaki1977 1924 F. T. Macartney in Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Dec. Didjeridoo—didjeridoo! A blackfellow blows through a length of bamboo To the regular beat of an ironwood stick. 1924 F. T. Macartney in Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Dec. And all..Is dark while you hark to the didjeridoo. 1936 F. D. Davison Children of Dark People i. 10 He would make music on his didjeridoo. 1938 F. D. McCarthy Austral. Aboriginal Decorative Art 36 The chanting tubes or didjeridu are painted with red, yellow, white and black dashes on a red or plain field. 1944 W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 80 From the river bank came the droning of the didgeredoo. 1959 S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time iv. 38 Only the didgeridoo, the native hollow-log trumpet, could produce that galvanising noise. 1965 Sunday Mirror 5 Sept. 23/1 A didgeridoo blown by Australian entertainer Rolf Harris. 1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Nov. 1453/2 The everlasting drone of the dijiridu. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1924 |
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