1. The harpsichord with its bright, vigorous tone was the favorite instrument for supporting the bass of the small orchestra of the period and for concert use, but the character of the tone could not be varied save by mechanical or structural devices.
人们最喜欢用具备明快有力音调的拨弦古钢琴来配合当时小型管弦乐团的低音乐器以及在演奏会上演奏。 但它的音调难以变化,除非使用机械或构件装置。

-- 来源 -- 英语背诵 - P_gangqin

2. a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries.
无腿方形的大键琴;在、世纪通常由女性演奏。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

3. A small, legless rectangular harpsichord popular in the16th and17th centuries.Often used in the plural.
维吉诺古钢琴在16世纪到17世纪流行的一种长方形无足的小型古钢琴。常用作复数

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. A stringed keyboard instrument, such as a harpsichord.
键盘弦乐器,如大键琴

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

5. I can tune the harpsichord as well as play it.
我会弹奏大键琴,同样地,我也会给大键琴调音.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例

6. After playing a little on the harpsichord, he asked for a theme.
贝多芬在大键琴上演奏了一会儿后,向莫扎特要了个主旋律。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

7. a playable lie in golf; the baseball fan reached out and caught a foul that was judged playable; the ball field was playable; harpsichord music is readily playable- P.H.Lang.
高尔夫球中可以继续比赛的球位;那个棒球迷伸出了手,指出了一个被判为可以继续比赛的犯规动作;球场已经可以比赛了;大键琴音乐很容易演奏——P·H·朗。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

8. The piano was perfected in the early eighteenth century by a harpsichord maker in Italy (though musicologists point out several Previous instances of the instrument).
18世纪早期的意大利,钢琴在一位拨琴钢琴制造者手中得到完善(尽管音乐理论家们指出有更早的例子)。

-- 来源 -- 英语背诵 - P_gangqin

9. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century.
17世纪时风琴、敲弦琴和拨弦琴成为键盘乐器类的主要成员。 这种至高无上的地位一直为它们所保持,直到18世纪末期钢琴将它们取代。

-- 来源 -- 英语背诵 - P_gangqin