| 单词 | lullaby |
| 释义 | lullaby (once / 3548 pages) n If anyone has ever sung a song to you before bedtime, trying to lull you to sleep, you can call that song a lullaby. Lullabies are usually soft and soothing tunes — more like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" than AC/DC's "Back in Black." Many lullabies are folk tunes, and most of them are simple melodies with repetitive lyrics. You might be familiar with lullabies like "Hush, Little Baby," "Rockabye Baby," and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," all of which have been sung for generations to sleepy children by their parents, grandparents, and babysitters. The word lullaby comes from the Middle English lullen, "to lull or soothe," and bye, as in "bye bye." WORD FAMILYlullaby: lullabied, lullabies USAGE EXAMPLESThey absorb such stock scenes as the lament, the pastoral, the lullaby, the rage aria, the tempest. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) The lullaby waltz written for his nephew is actually a puzzle? Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) She heard a lullaby by the composer Richard Strauss, she says, and she was dumbfounded. Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016) 1n a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep Syn|Hyper berceuse, cradlesong song, vocal a short musical composition with words 2n the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep Syn|Hyper cradlesong song, strain the act of singing |
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