Such a time! Lots of fun, though. The fellows got out and pulled flowers, and seed cucumbers, and things and threw them at folks. You never saw such cut-ups as they are. Pretty good singers, too. Good part of the way, they sung "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean," and "How Can I Bear to Leave Thee," nice and slow, you know, a good deal of tenor and not much bass, and plenty of these" minor chords." (Yes, I know, some people call them "barber-shop chords," but I think "minor" is a nicer name.)英文原著 · 《Back Home》
"But it cannot be. That fine air is difficult to breathe long, and life, with its rounds of custom and duty, recalls us. So we descend with the musician, through varying harmonies and sliding modulations. .deadening the poignancy of the minor third in the more satisfying reassuring chord of the dominant ninth, which again finds its rest on the key-note -- C major -- the common chord, so sober and uninteresting that it well symbolizes the common level of life, the prosaic key-note to which unfortunately most of our lives are set.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
13th May. THIS morning the doctor came to see me. His name is Werner, but he is a Russian. What is there surprising in that? I have known a man named Ivanov, who was a German. Werner is a remarkable man, and that for many reasons. Like almost all medical men he is a sceptic and a materialist, but, at the same time, he is a genuine poet -- a poet always in deeds and often in words, although he has never written two verses in his life. He has mastered all the living chords of the human heart, just as one learns the veins of a corpse, but he has never known how to avail himself of his knowledge.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
They were left alone to talk, and they did talk for more than an hour. The first interruption, indeed, was a recitativo with chords, followed by a verse from the leading treble.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
She dined with Vizard next day, and retired to the drawing-room. The piano was opened, and she played one or two exquisite things, and afterward tried her voice, but only in scales, and somewhat timidly, for Miss Gale warned her she might lose it or spoil it if she strained the vocal chord while her whole system was weak.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column. It was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
We get letters here on the show, and one particular letter, for you, actually, struck a chord with our producers.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
* [SINGING] Stephanie knows all the chords Come on! Pick up, pick up!美剧 · 《Friends》
Now, um, I don't know the actual names of the chords, um...美剧 · 《Friends》
Have you been studying the real names of the chords?美剧 · 《Friends》
And when it's ready to coordinate the final chord with me. and when it's ready to coordinate the final chord with me.演讲 · 《Robots with soul ~ Guy Hoffman》