tuning

• n. [电子][通信] 调谐；调音，起弦；协调一致；起音，定音

英文词源

tuning (n.)

1550s, "action of putting in tune," verbal noun from tune (v.). Of motors, from 1863. Tuning fork attested from 1776, supposedly invented by John Shore (d.1753), royal trumpeter.

[Shore] was a man of humour and pleasantry, and was the original inventor of the tuning-fork, an instrument which he constantly carried about him, and used to tune his lute by, and which whenever he produced it gave occasion to a pun. At a concert he would say, "I have not about me a pitch-pipe, but I have what will do as well to tune by, a pitch-fork." [Sir John Hawkins, "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music," London, 1776]

双语例句

1. There's a lot of fine-tuning to be done yet.

还需要作出很多微调。

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2. I could hear the sound of a band tuning up.

我能听到乐队调音的声音。

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3. Others were quietly tuning up their instruments.

其他人正静静地为他们的乐器调音。

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4. Auto-tuning VHF receivers are now common in cars.

自动调节甚高频接收器现在普遍应用于汽车。

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5. They are tuning up a plane on the flight line.

他们正在机场的飞机跑道上调试一架飞机.

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