| 单词 | tone-deafness |
| 释义 | > as lemmastone-deafness tone-deafness n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > condition of not tone-deafness1884 1884 T. Barr Man. Dis. Ear iv. ii. 459 If this partial tone-deafness is not connected with disease of the conducting apparatus, the anomaly is probably due to cochlear disturbance. 1941 F. Matthiessen Amer. Renaissance i. iv. 34 The honesty of Whittier's effort was somewhat vitiated by the tone-deafness that robbed his verse of any full variety of cadences. 1973 Listener 14 June 786/3 Mr Nixon..has persistently shown..a disturbing tone-deafness to the legal restraints which..are built into the American system. 1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 134/1 Tone deafness is a defect of pitch discrimination in which the relationship of one musical tone to others cannot be accurately assessed or imitated. < as lemmas |
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