1attributive Consisting of three parts; threefold.

这条鱼被拖在水中的大三重鱼钩给钩住了。

1. 1.1 Multiplied or occurring three times.
   乘以三的，出现三次的
   she turned back to make a double and treble check

   她折回去，核查了两三遍。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • ‘The students come in and have a treble vodka with a dash of Corky's and a dash of coke, for £3.50,’ said Arthur.
   • There is also another parallel stream of procedure relating to proceedings brought privately, for example, proceedings to recover multiple damages, treble damages, perhaps.
   • Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.

Three times as much or as many.

这小费至少是她平时所给的三倍。

1A thing that is three times as large as usual or is made up of three standard units or things.

1. 1.1 (in show jumping) a fence consisting of three elements.
   （超越障碍马术比赛的）三重栅栏
2. 1.2 A crochet stitch made with three loops of wool on the hook at a time.
   三重钩编针脚
3. 1.3 A drink of liquor of three times the standard measure.
   （一杯）三倍分量的酒

A number or amount which is three times as large as a contrasting or usual number or amount.

付了三倍的钱后，他拥有了一套自己的双人间。

Make or become three times as large or numerous.

租金增加一倍，也有可能是两倍。

几年内，他的工资涨了两倍。

1A high-pitched voice, especially a boy's singing voice.

1. 1.1 A boy or girl with a treble voice.
   高音男童（或女童）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The choir needs six more trebles aged seven to 14, a couple of basses and tenors, and perhaps an alto or two.
   • We've always had a choir made up of boy and girl trebles, together with male altos, tenors and basses.
   • Five years earlier, in 1735 as a treble, he had sung the role of Oberto in Alcina.
   • He started out as a boy treble and later, after his voice broke, joined Ontario's provincial youth choir.
   • When I was eight years old I started at the Choir School at Canterbury Cathedral and a year or so later joined the cathedral choir as a treble.
   • They sing with relish, and understanding, and only the busy part-writing towards the end of Haydn's Te Deum appears ready to swallow the trebles.
   • The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir.
   • Other performers included boy trebles and members of St Thomas's Church choir, members of Salisbury Amateur Operatic Society and Studio Theatre.
   • The trebles float the highest notes with admirable assurance and no suspicion of strain.
   • Sustained lines for the soprano, joined by a boy treble kept from his bed for five minutes' worth of work, provide vocal variety.
   • So he would seem to be one of that unfortunate breed of outstanding trebles who develop into merely adequate adult singers.
   • This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
   • Tavener cautions us in the liner notes not to expect anything ‘dramatic in the Western sense’, and so the treble repeats his phrase to launch all Paul's verses.
   • The choir now has sixteen boy trebles and thirteen men (on all the other parts), some of whom are professional singers and some of whom are students at Christ Church.
   • His wife plays the flute and the recorder and his son sings as a treble.
   • The sound is an ‘English’ sound, strongly influenced by the voices of boy trebles, though it sounds to me more like women singing with a straight tone.
2. 1.2 A part written for a high voice or an instrument of a high pitch.
   高声部；高声部乐器
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
   • The piece requires the player to shift the focus of the melody line from the treble to the bass.
   • You lose the crispness of the trebles and the rich thrum of the bass.
   • One of the album's principle plagues is the near total lack of low-end - - all that unsupported treble gets tiresome after a while.
   • For them, the call of each of these birds is distinct, with its own melody, structure, pitch, base and treble.
   • Top 40 hits sounded excellent too, with thumping bass notes and nice trebles.
   • The harsh treble of the theme music is not particularly pleasant, although advancing a chapter allows you to skip straight to the action and avoid that problem altogether.
   • I think it probably just means that you, like me, follow the treble.
   • This sequence had me taut with apprehension, and I jumped at the sudden dominance of bass and screeching treble.
   • Believe me when I say this, there's not much treble on this album.
3. 1.3as modifier Denoting a relatively high-pitched member of a family of similar instruments.
   高声部乐器的
   a treble viol

   一把高音提琴。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The purchase of a full chest of instruments (usually two each of trebles, tenors, and basses) would encourage the training of family members to play them.
   • The 17th and 18th-century trio sonata was a favourite chamber ensemble, using two treble instruments and one bass, with a keyboard or lute continuo to fill in the harmony.
   • There are three main sizes of modern oboe: the normal treble, the alto oboe d' amore, and the tenor cor anglais or English horn.
   • The prototype treble was soon replaced with two new generation lattice trebles made by the late Eugene Phillip and I made a lattice baritone in 1996, and a lattice bass in 2001.
4. 1.4 The smallest and highest-pitched bell of a set.
   （套钟中最小，音高最高的）高音钟
   Example sentencesExamples

   • And most crucially, the treble bells could be replaced with new ones better matched to the bass bells.
   • The ring of bells at St Bene't's was completed in 1663 when the treble bell of the six was hung.
   • By 2004 enough money had been raised to cast two new treble bells and complete the ring of ten.
   • Twenty mid-range bells have been replaced, and twenty one smaller treble bells have been added.
   • Thus the final instalment in the story was the casting and installing of the two treble bells of ten.
5. 1.5 The high-frequency output of an audio system or radio, corresponding to the treble in music.
   高音（无线电或音响系统的高频输出）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • It's all treble and no bass, tragic potential utterly untapped.
   • The bass is more present than before, and the occasional stridency of the treble has been tamed without an apparent loss of musical information.
   • Vanguard's recording preserves most of the piano's dynamic range, betrayed only by some fuzziness in the treble.
   • To the right, the Presence control adds treble by reducing the amount of high frequencies in the feedback loop.
   • I know that I usually find my feet tapping to the treble.
   • Unfortunately, there are no separate treble controls on the satellites or the woofer, so you will have to deal with the level of treble within software, if allowed.
   • For example, if there is too much bass, decrease the bass and/or increase the treble.
   • The two satellite speakers sit near by monitor and allow me to further adjust bass and treble at a push of a button.
   • Likewise, audio is clean and remarkably dynamic; even the extensive use of treble in the bird song doesn't reveal any distortion or buzz.
   • The bass is the comforting smoothness, and the treble is the piercing clarity.
   • Bass response is minimal and most of the film languishes in the midrange and treble, but overall, it is not an unpleasant presentation.
   • One wall is made up of cabinets containing hundreds of CDs, and a stereo on which the bass and treble are permanently turned up full.
   • The most basic signal processing is already in the head-end unit and can take the form of tone controls like bass and treble, and other functions to balance the sound from front to back or side to side.
   • The balance between treble and bass is just right and there's no doubting this is a top-notch system that any self-respecting audiophile would be happy to own.
   • Apart from good sound, you will find controls for bass, treble and sound balance that is not common in PDAs.
   • Instead, it sounds like some of the upper range treble was simple repeated out of the rear channels - so you get a slight echo off Marley's voice and the cymbals.
   • The levels are balanced, and there is a nice mix of treble and bass.
   • The 5.1 track is a step up, with bright trebles and excellent distribution to the rear channels.
   • The treble was champagne-fuelled voices and the bass was rolling out of huge speakers around the edge of a low-ceilinged room with two or three hundred people in it.
   • There are no advanced volume settings such as treble or bass.