英语词汇“bell”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

bell¹

noun bɛlbɛl

1A hollow metal object, typically in the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, especially by means of a clapper inside.
铃，钟
the church bells tolled
a bell tinkled as he went in the shop
as modifier the bell chamber of the church spire
Example sentencesExamples
- It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower.
- He partook of a leisurely breakfast, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air.
- Suddenly, the serenity is pierced by the distinct tone of a ringing bell.
- The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking.
- Suddenly, the sound of clear bells came bouncing up the sides of the mountain ranges from the town by the river below.
- Those clanging bells reminded me of another vendor who used to make similar rounds in the neighbourhood.
- He often chimed the bells himself before service.
- As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
- At noon the bell on the guardhouse tower and several church bells began tolling for two hours.
- Nine enormous, new bronze bells are on their way to Paris to give the medieval Notre Dame Cathedral a more modern sound.
- The story goes that a large bell was tolled whenever the soup was prepared.
- Winter night closed in around me and I heard the faint sound of church bells chiming the hour.
- Three hundred and forty years earlier another bell ringer described his fear that the bell or the church tower would fall on top of him.
- Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell.
- It wasn't a bright sound like most bells, but more hollow and deep.
- In all cases, the shape of the bell is critical in projecting the sound, giving it much of its characteristic tone-colour and stabilizing its pitch.
- All of a sudden, the bell sounds, rather alarmingly.
- A bell tolled one long note of mourning as she realised this meant farewell not only to her father, but to her mother as well.
- The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells.
- At midnight, the bells would chime across the city, town or village.
Synonyms
chime, gong, alarm
peal, knell, toll
signal, warning, alert
archaic tocsin
1. 1.1 A device that includes or sounds like a bell, used to give a signal or warning.
  信号铃，门铃，警铃，铃铛
  a bicycle bell
  自行车铃。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He strikes the bike bell, and rolls away, the sound of the squeaky wheel dominating.
  Then the bell rang, signaling it was time to get to class.
  The final bell has just rung and we're free, free to party, sleep, or study.
  When we walked in, the door hit a charming brass bell and it made a soft ‘ding’.
  The warning bell rang, so I parted ways with Ivy, and went to my class.
  Five seconds into the take-off a warning bell sounds to inform the captain that there is a problem with the number two engine and that it is on fire.
  The warning bell for dinner rang, signaling for the household to start getting ready for dinner.
  Carter throws me a menacing look, but is unable to follow up with a threatening comment, because the bell has just rung.
  A man on a bicycle rode by, ringing his bell to signal people to move.
  The older, more tired man rings the bell to signal the bus to stop.
  The warning bell rang signaling two minutes before their next class.
  Just as I was about to answer, the shrill school bell sounded throughout the halls.
  It is in very good condition, and has a very loud bell.
  We were all in the process of changing when a loud, shrill bell sounded, warning us of a fire.
  When the school bell rang, she snuck quickly out and made her way to the rack where her bicycle waited.
  As the seventh hour dismissal bell sounded, I remained in my desk.
  She had pressed the bell indicating that she wanted the bus to halt at the next stop where she would disembark.
  After a few minutes of listening to the mindless chatter of my peers, the bell rang, signaling the movement of the student body to first period.
  But when she finally gained the front doors, she discovered neither bell nor knocker.
  Having just begun a fearsome maths test I still remember the surge of relief when the electric bell sounded its continuous warning.
2. 1.2the bell (in boxing and other sports) a bell rung to mark the start or end of a round.
  （拳击和其他体育比赛一个回合的）开始（或结束）铃声
  they were dragged off each other at the final bell
  终场铃声响起，他们两人被拉开。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Even at the bell to start the round she stood for a second and looked in disbelief at her coach.
  Johnson needed the judges help too, because there was no way the fight would end between first and final bell.
  Harrison could well have finished it but the bell intervened to his opponent's relief.
  At the bell for round one, he came out fast and was up on his toes circling to the left nonstop.
  He could barely contain himself when his opponent could not answer the bell for the seventh.
  Just as the bell ended the fifteenth round, Frazier put his hands up and yelled something at Ali.
  As the round ended, both fighters got toe-to-toe and exchanged savage blows until and after the bell.
  Sampson mauled Johnson the entire last half of the second round and the corner threw in the towel at the bell for round three.
  The referee stepped between them thinking he heard the bell ending the round.
  He struggled to his corner as the bell had already ended the round.
  Two minutes after the bell for round one, Liston was the new undisputed champ.
  Barkley charged out of his corner at the bell for the third round and backed Hearns into a corner.
  At the bell, he attacked and kept firing until the ref called a halt.
  By the fifth round, he had a point deducted for hitting after the bell.
  He won the world heavyweight title at the age of 22 when his opponent was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round.
  To their credit, the boys answered the bell for round two, but it didn't last long.
  He was still landing those bruising jabs at the bell in his going away triumph.
  He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell.
  Referee Tony Perez reached five in the count and the bell couldn't save Ellis.
  Right before the bell for the first round the anticipation was high.
2A bell-shaped object or part of something.
钟状物，钟状部分，尤指
1. 2.1 The end of a trumpet or other brass instrument.
  the acoustic properties of a trumpet's bell
  Example sentencesExamples
  The bell of the trumpet is decorated with a garland bearing the maker's name and the place where the instrument was made.
  He made me an unbelievable trumpet with carvings and designs and a big double bell, like a space-age trumpet.
  Researchers in Germany have been looking carefully at the after glow of the big bang and have decided that the universe is shaped like a trumpet bell.
2. 2.2Botany The corolla of a bell-shaped flower.
  钟状花冠
  a flower with small pale blue bells
  Example sentencesExamples
  Great black bees make their way from the bell of one flower to the petals of the next.
  The citron yellow or red tinged flowers are also worth having, hanging bells on tall stalks that dance in the wind and give way to upright seed heads for autumn interest.
  A few warm days and they will be growing rapidly, the flowers opening to reveal the familiar white bells with their crisp green markings.
  Salvia confertiflora is a half-hardy salvia with delicate orange bells along its stem.
  Flowers are borne on long thin stalks - tiny white bells that do not do any justice to the lovely plant.
3. 2.3Zoology The umbrella of a jellyfish.
  the tiny jellyfish has a bell measuring five to ten millimetres wide
3bellsA musical instrument consisting of a set of metal tubes of different lengths, suspended in a frame and played by being struck with a hammer.
钟琴。亦称TUBULAR BELLS
Also called tubular bells
Example sentencesExamples
- The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments.
- Working with sampled bells, gongs and prepared piano, he then uses electronic equipment to process this first layer and continues to build up his compositions.
- He planted the two harps in front of the orchestra, on either side of his rostrum, and banished bells and drums to the unseen backstage.
- The bells in the final movement are much more forward and eerie.
- This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
4Nautical
(preceded by a numeral) the time as indicated every half hour of a watch by the striking of the ship's bell one to eight times.
〔航海〕八击钟报时法（舰船的报时方法，在四小时的值班时间里每隔半小时敲钟报时，每次报时敲钟次数从一次递增至八次）
at five bells in the forenoon of June 11
6月11日上午五击钟（即10点30分）。
Example sentencesExamples
- The bell tolled the last of eight bells in the afternoon on Dolphin.
- Hornblower left the first watch at four bells, entered the cabin, and sat writing in the log by the light of a single candle and the ceiling lantern.
- Eight bells brought him back from the run before the wind.

verb bɛlbɛl

1with object Provide with a bell or bells.
装钟于，系铃于
the young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them
Example sentencesExamples
- He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question.
- She readjusted her jingling belled hat.
- Oh yes, and health inspectors should be belled like lepers.
- He paled below his silly, belled jester's hat.
2no object Make a ringing sound likened to that of a bell.
发出响铃（或敲钟）般的声音
the organ was belling away
1. 2.1British informal with object Telephone (someone)
  〈英，非正式〉给（某人）打电话
  no problem, I'll bell her tomorrow
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'll bell you or you bell me tonight about arrangements for tomorrow.
  She belled me tonight to see if you girls have any advice.
3no object Spread outwards like the lip of a bell.
成喇叭口（或钟口）状展开（或鼓起）
her shirt belled out behind
她的衬衫背面鼓了起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- Eventually, it creaked to a juddering, shrieking stop and a huge door, rust-pitted, streaked with red and belled outwards with age ground slowly aside.
- Reaching over to fix the long, belled sleeves of the dress, Betty smiled warmly.
- He was wearing a red V-neck shirt with long sleeves that belled out near the hands, white jeans, and black slip-on shoes with thick white socks.
- The dress was very elegant with long, belled sleeves and a golden rope for a belt.
- It had a low neckline and a skirt that was slightly belled.
- well if not a peasant top has belled sleeves and nothing goes on the shoulders or around the neck.
- It had a low cut V-neck, and the sleeves belled out into dramatic triangular petals.
- A maroon, silk ribbon tied right below her elbow where more sheer fabric belled out right above her wrist.
- Adjust the expander die to bell the mouth just enough to allow a bullet to start cleanly and case life will be extended considerably.
- The sleeves were belled, and it all sparkled as if enchanted.
- She wore a tight black velvet shirt with a low neck and long sleeves that belled out.
- Her green dress belled out around her with the speed of his dancing, and she felt like magic…
- She looked at it again, it was black and sleek and pretty, and it belled out around her a little above her knees.
- The top was very tight fitting, with a skirt that belled out at the waist.
- There was a lower neck line with blue lace and belled sleeves.
- The sleeves were long and belled out slightly at the wrists.
- His legs donned somewhat baggy khaki pants and a light blue button down shirt that belled out at his wrists.
- At the end he found a small slot that belled out above a sandy floor - and an absence of footprints.
- Although I couldn't move my head, I knew that the walls of the rift belled out beneath me and narrowed above, forming the tightest part of the rift.
- Taña paints and teaches the local girls how to bell the bottoms of their pants.

Phrases

bell the cat

Take the danger of a shared enterprise upon oneself.
（为集体的事情）承担危险
Example sentencesExamples
- Though the industry had been deliberating at length over the crisis for long, they failed to evolve a consensus and ultimately the exhibitors had to step in to bell the cat.
- No community is likely to bell the cat by making gratuitous concessions on this issue.
- Politicians should be brave enough to bell the cat and join forces to tackle the national task.
- It has become more of a question of who is to bell the cat.
- The real challenge is deciding whose job it is to bell the cat.
- His government should convince all political parties that it is time to bell the cat to implement the one-child norm for one and all.
- Warner is to be lauded for his courage to bell the cat, albeit at the eleventh hour, and close this unfortunate chapter in the country's footballing history, by replacing St Clair.
- But the burning question is: who will bell the cat?
- I think the idea of approaching him one on one is good in terms of it being less likely to arouse defensiveness, although that makes one of you guys the person who has to bell the cat.
- But then someone has to bell the cat and the Metro Rail has to become a reality.

bells and whistles

informal Attractive additional features or trimmings.
〈非正式〉附加的诱人特色（或点缀）
the company is putting bells and whistles on its notebook computer
Example sentencesExamples
- It has enough bells and whistles to satiate special effects fans, but not too many to cheapen the overall film.
- You'd think we'd have learnt how all the bells and whistles on our phones worked after that wouldn't you?
- If you can live without the latest bells and whistles, then used equipment may be for you.
- The whole thing fizzes with furious energy and is more satisfying than plenty of albums with more technical bells and whistles.
- It's got so many bells and whistles, it's taking time for me to get used to using it.
- A young friend of mine got his first autofocus camera the other day - a fairly swish Canon, with quite a few of the bells and whistles.
- Now most high-end computers cost only two thousand dollars, and these computers have all the bells and whistles.
- They want an integrated system with all the bells and whistles of high-end storage as standard features.
- I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design.
- Cut out all the bells and whistles and stick to simple architecture.

be saved by the bell

1(in boxing and other sports) be saved from being counted out by the ringing of the bell at the end of a round.
被铃声解救（拳击或其他体育项目中因铃声宣布一个回合结束而幸免未被判输）
Example sentencesExamples
- In the ninth round the champion was saved by the bell.
- But Clay was saved by the bell and went on to triumph over Cooper.
- He was saved by the bell in rounds five, six and seven.
- He went down two more times in the first round and was saved by the bell.
- Willard had been saved by the bell at the count of seven.
- He was knocked down twice in the ninth round and was saved by the bell.
- He was saved by the bell from a fourth round knock-out.
- The visitor, whose legs were buckled by a left hook to the side of the head, was in fact saved by the bell in the first round.
- Thompson felled Sellers twice in their amazing slug-fest, and the Yank was saved by the bell on both occasions.
- With 25 seconds to go to the end of the round Cantwell suddenly found himself on his knees only to be saved by the bell on that occasion.
1. 1.1Escape from a difficult situation narrowly or by an unexpected intervention.
  （因意想不到的干预而）侥幸解围
  Example sentencesExamples
  I had the sense that any moment another question would befall me - but I was saved by the bell.
  I was saved by the bell and reached for salvation before anyone else dreamed of moving - they were trying to wake up from their peaceful slumber.
  They were saved by the bell when a courtly looking man, most likely a bodyguard, showed up out of nowhere, went up to the podium, and promptly announced that there was a bomb threat on the building.
  As with most other remarkable escapes, Morgan is saved by the bell.

(as) clear (or sound) as a bell

Perfectly clear (or sound)
极为清晰；完好
Aunt Nora's words came clear as a bell
Example sentencesExamples
- Here I was speaking to a close friend of my uncle's for the first time ever, who although now in his 80s was as clear as a bell in his recounting of the old days.
- The soundtrack is clear of any major hiss or distortion with all aspects of the dialogue, effects, and music clear as a bell.
- ‘Hi, this is Roger,’ said my buddy Roger - his voice clear as a bell on the answer phone.
- Then Rebecca moved through the audience to sing with a voice as clear as a bell.
- ‘The pleasure's all mine,’ said the voice, which was rather high but smooth and rang out clear as a bell.
- He said: ‘I still remember the day as clear as a bell.’
- It switches between being clear as a bell, and being murky and distant.
- When I got up the next morning, the dream was still clear as a bell, and it continues to stay with me until this day.
- The presentation here is distortion free and clear as a bell.
- I can still remember the day she died as clear as a bell.
Synonyms
distinctly, clearly, as clear as a bell, plainly, audibly, intelligibly, with clarity
distinct, bell-like, as clear as a bell, clarion, pure

give someone a bell

informal Telephone someone.
〈英，非正式〉给（某人）打电话
tell him to give me a bell at the garage
Example sentencesExamples
- So Mums and Dads, Grannies and Granddads give us a bell and let us know who is about and we wont leave anyone out.
- ‘Well if you ever want someone to play keyboards give us a bell,’ he said.
- Just give him a bell and get him over, tell him I thought it was important, ok?
- A person with an interest in the shopping centre project at the time gave us a bell to tell us his memory of the background to the matter of the bridge.
- I'm just giving you a bell to see if you've got anything or not.
- He gave us a bell this afternoon to raise a few problems.
- So I bought a couple of beers on my way into Newtown, I gave Sandy a bell to see what was up, as I thought being woken up with a beer would be nice.
- I gave her a bell there and she seems rather too calm.
- If you want the address of a chiropractor, give me a bell.
- For more info, give Julia Glass a bell on 045 403396.
Synonyms
phone, call, get someone on the phone, get on the phone to, get, reach, dial, make a call to, place a call to

ring a bell

informal Sound vaguely familiar.
the name rings a bell
这名字听起来挺熟。
Example sentencesExamples
- While her name might not ring a bell in the minds of most people, the festival will screen a ‘snippet’ from her body of work titled ‘Harlequin’.
- The name rings a bell, but I can't put my finger on why.
- While her name might not ring a bell, her songs definitely do.
- If that name doesn't ring a bell, you're not alone.
- The name rang a bell, though she couldn't quite place it.
- If the name rings a bell, it is because he might have helped you buy a book, film or album.
- If these names ring a bell and you can supply further information please contact us.
- One of the country's legendary tenor saxophone players, his name might not ring a bell for those who are not in tune with Jazz in India, but he deserves to be remembered.
- If Blackwell's name doesn't ring a bell with you, that's understandable.
- That girl's name rang a bell, but she couldn't remember where from.

with bells on

informal Enthusiastically.
〈北美，非正式〉热情地
everybody's waiting for you with bells on
大家都在热情地等着你。
Example sentencesExamples
- Just let me know when you're ready, and I'll be there with bells on.
- ‘I'll be there with bells on,’ Aidan said as he slid out of the car.
- The audience is likely to show up for ‘A Christmas Classique,’ by pianist Lorie Line and her pop chamber orchestra, with bells on.
- I'll be there with bells on, though that might make us a little conspicuous.
- Any sane New York politician who can walk or crawl into the Plaza will be there with bells on, soaking up the good press.
- I mean, even if she didn't feel well, she would be there with bells on.
- I'll be there with bells on, I promise - but what about the game?
- Also, he's coming to town, again, on the 13 th, and I will be there with bells on.
- Bradley said, standing up, ‘I'm waiting with bells on, Mr. Lauderdale, so why don't you hit me?
- They're doing it with bells on.

Origin

Old English belle, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bel, and perhaps to bell².

Rhymes

Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell

bell²

noun bɛlbɛl

The characteristic cry of a stag or buck at rutting time.
（雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声
Example sentencesExamples
- Our guides will have you listen to the bell of the stag at the mating season or observe the animals from watch towers.
- We organise evening visits to the animal reserve on these two special weekends to listen to the stag's bell and the clashing of the antlers as the animals fight.

verb bɛlbɛl

[no object]

(of a stag or buck) make a cry at rutting time.
（雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声
Example sentencesExamples
- My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder.
- Just then a stag belled loudly.
- The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks.
- My very earliest memories include playing beneath the trees and listening to the stags belling in the dusk.
- During the rut in October and November you can hear the stags belling or roaring.

Origin

Old English bellan 'to bellow', of Germanic origin; related to German bellen 'to bark, bray', and perhaps also to bell¹.

Bell³

proper nounbɛlbɛl

A city in south-western California, south-east of Los Angeles; population 36,657 (est. 2008).

proper noun

Currer, Ellis, and Acton, the pseudonyms used by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.

bell¹

nounbɛlbel

1A hollow object, typically made of metal and having the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, typically by means of a clapper inside.
铃，钟
the church bells tolled
a bell tinkled as he went in the shop
as modifier the bell chamber of the church spire
Example sentencesExamples
- At midnight, the bells would chime across the city, town or village.
- Nine enormous, new bronze bells are on their way to Paris to give the medieval Notre Dame Cathedral a more modern sound.
- The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells.
- Three hundred and forty years earlier another bell ringer described his fear that the bell or the church tower would fall on top of him.
- It wasn't a bright sound like most bells, but more hollow and deep.
- In all cases, the shape of the bell is critical in projecting the sound, giving it much of its characteristic tone-colour and stabilizing its pitch.
- He partook of a leisurely breakfast, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air.
- As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
- A bell tolled one long note of mourning as she realised this meant farewell not only to her father, but to her mother as well.
- He often chimed the bells himself before service.
- Suddenly, the sound of clear bells came bouncing up the sides of the mountain ranges from the town by the river below.
- Those clanging bells reminded me of another vendor who used to make similar rounds in the neighbourhood.
- The story goes that a large bell was tolled whenever the soup was prepared.
- Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell.
- Winter night closed in around me and I heard the faint sound of church bells chiming the hour.
- It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower.
- At noon the bell on the guardhouse tower and several church bells began tolling for two hours.
- Suddenly, the serenity is pierced by the distinct tone of a ringing bell.
- All of a sudden, the bell sounds, rather alarmingly.
- The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking.
Synonyms
chime, gong, alarm
1. 1.1 A device that includes or sounds like a bell, used to give a signal or warning.
  信号铃，门铃，警铃，铃铛
  a bicycle bell
  自行车铃。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The warning bell for dinner rang, signaling for the household to start getting ready for dinner.
  But when she finally gained the front doors, she discovered neither bell nor knocker.
  Just as I was about to answer, the shrill school bell sounded throughout the halls.
  He strikes the bike bell, and rolls away, the sound of the squeaky wheel dominating.
  Carter throws me a menacing look, but is unable to follow up with a threatening comment, because the bell has just rung.
  It is in very good condition, and has a very loud bell.
  A man on a bicycle rode by, ringing his bell to signal people to move.
  When the school bell rang, she snuck quickly out and made her way to the rack where her bicycle waited.
  As the seventh hour dismissal bell sounded, I remained in my desk.
  We were all in the process of changing when a loud, shrill bell sounded, warning us of a fire.
  After a few minutes of listening to the mindless chatter of my peers, the bell rang, signaling the movement of the student body to first period.
  Then the bell rang, signaling it was time to get to class.
  The final bell has just rung and we're free, free to party, sleep, or study.
  The warning bell rang signaling two minutes before their next class.
  The older, more tired man rings the bell to signal the bus to stop.
  Five seconds into the take-off a warning bell sounds to inform the captain that there is a problem with the number two engine and that it is on fire.
  The warning bell rang, so I parted ways with Ivy, and went to my class.
  She had pressed the bell indicating that she wanted the bus to halt at the next stop where she would disembark.
  When we walked in, the door hit a charming brass bell and it made a soft ‘ding’.
  Having just begun a fearsome maths test I still remember the surge of relief when the electric bell sounded its continuous warning.
2. 1.2the bell A bell rung to denote intervals of time, such as (in boxing and other sports) to mark the start or end of a round.
  （拳击和其他体育比赛一个回合的）开始（或结束）铃声
  at the bell, we dashed out of Latin class
  the fight went to the final bell for a decision
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the bell for round one, he came out fast and was up on his toes circling to the left nonstop.
  Right before the bell for the first round the anticipation was high.
  Harrison could well have finished it but the bell intervened to his opponent's relief.
  He won the world heavyweight title at the age of 22 when his opponent was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round.
  He struggled to his corner as the bell had already ended the round.
  As the round ended, both fighters got toe-to-toe and exchanged savage blows until and after the bell.
  Two minutes after the bell for round one, Liston was the new undisputed champ.
  To their credit, the boys answered the bell for round two, but it didn't last long.
  Barkley charged out of his corner at the bell for the third round and backed Hearns into a corner.
  Johnson needed the judges help too, because there was no way the fight would end between first and final bell.
  Even at the bell to start the round she stood for a second and looked in disbelief at her coach.
  He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell.
  Referee Tony Perez reached five in the count and the bell couldn't save Ellis.
  He could barely contain himself when his opponent could not answer the bell for the seventh.
  He was still landing those bruising jabs at the bell in his going away triumph.
  At the bell, he attacked and kept firing until the ref called a halt.
  The referee stepped between them thinking he heard the bell ending the round.
  By the fifth round, he had a point deducted for hitting after the bell.
  Just as the bell ended the fifteenth round, Frazier put his hands up and yelled something at Ali.
  Sampson mauled Johnson the entire last half of the second round and the corner threw in the towel at the bell for round three.
2A bell-shaped object or part of something.
钟状物，钟状部分，尤指
1. 2.1 The end of a trumpet or other brass instrument.
  the acoustic properties of a trumpet's bell
  Example sentencesExamples
  The bell of the trumpet is decorated with a garland bearing the maker's name and the place where the instrument was made.
  He made me an unbelievable trumpet with carvings and designs and a big double bell, like a space-age trumpet.
  Researchers in Germany have been looking carefully at the after glow of the big bang and have decided that the universe is shaped like a trumpet bell.
2. 2.2Botany The corolla of a bell-shaped flower.
  钟状花冠
  a flower with small pale blue bells
  Example sentencesExamples
  The citron yellow or red tinged flowers are also worth having, hanging bells on tall stalks that dance in the wind and give way to upright seed heads for autumn interest.
  Salvia confertiflora is a half-hardy salvia with delicate orange bells along its stem.
  Great black bees make their way from the bell of one flower to the petals of the next.
  A few warm days and they will be growing rapidly, the flowers opening to reveal the familiar white bells with their crisp green markings.
  Flowers are borne on long thin stalks - tiny white bells that do not do any justice to the lovely plant.
3. 2.3Zoology The umbrella of a jellyfish.
  the tiny jellyfish has a bell measuring five to ten millimeters wide
3bellsA musical instrument consisting of a set of cylindrical metal tubes of different lengths, suspended in a frame and played by being struck with a hammer.
钟琴。亦称TUBULAR BELLS
Also called tubular bells
Example sentencesExamples
- This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam.
- He planted the two harps in front of the orchestra, on either side of his rostrum, and banished bells and drums to the unseen backstage.
- The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments.
- The bells in the final movement are much more forward and eerie.
- Working with sampled bells, gongs and prepared piano, he then uses electronic equipment to process this first layer and continues to build up his compositions.
4Nautical
(preceded by a numeral) the time as indicated every half hour of a watch by the striking of the ship's bell one to eight times.
〔航海〕八击钟报时法（舰船的报时方法，在四小时的值班时间里每隔半小时敲钟报时，每次报时敲钟次数从一次递增至八次）
at five bells in the forenoon of June 11
6月11日上午五击钟（即10点30分）。
Example sentencesExamples
- Eight bells brought him back from the run before the wind.
- Hornblower left the first watch at four bells, entered the cabin, and sat writing in the log by the light of a single candle and the ceiling lantern.
- The bell tolled the last of eight bells in the afternoon on Dolphin.

verbbɛlbel

1with object Provide with a bell or bells; attach a bell or bells to.
装钟于，系铃于
the young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them
Example sentencesExamples
- Oh yes, and health inspectors should be belled like lepers.
- He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question.
- He paled below his silly, belled jester's hat.
- She readjusted her jingling belled hat.
2no object Make a ringing sound likened to that of a bell.
发出响铃（或敲钟）般的声音
the organ belling away
3no object Spread or flare outward like the lip of a bell.
成喇叭口（或钟口）状展开（或鼓起）
her shirt belled out behind
她的衬衫背面鼓了起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- His legs donned somewhat baggy khaki pants and a light blue button down shirt that belled out at his wrists.
- She looked at it again, it was black and sleek and pretty, and it belled out around her a little above her knees.
- At the end he found a small slot that belled out above a sandy floor - and an absence of footprints.
- The top was very tight fitting, with a skirt that belled out at the waist.
- She wore a tight black velvet shirt with a low neck and long sleeves that belled out.
- It had a low cut V-neck, and the sleeves belled out into dramatic triangular petals.
- A maroon, silk ribbon tied right below her elbow where more sheer fabric belled out right above her wrist.
- He was wearing a red V-neck shirt with long sleeves that belled out near the hands, white jeans, and black slip-on shoes with thick white socks.
- Eventually, it creaked to a juddering, shrieking stop and a huge door, rust-pitted, streaked with red and belled outwards with age ground slowly aside.
- Her green dress belled out around her with the speed of his dancing, and she felt like magic…
- Reaching over to fix the long, belled sleeves of the dress, Betty smiled warmly.
- There was a lower neck line with blue lace and belled sleeves.
- well if not a peasant top has belled sleeves and nothing goes on the shoulders or around the neck.
- The dress was very elegant with long, belled sleeves and a golden rope for a belt.
- Adjust the expander die to bell the mouth just enough to allow a bullet to start cleanly and case life will be extended considerably.
- Although I couldn't move my head, I knew that the walls of the rift belled out beneath me and narrowed above, forming the tightest part of the rift.
- The sleeves were long and belled out slightly at the wrists.
- The sleeves were belled, and it all sparkled as if enchanted.
- Taña paints and teaches the local girls how to bell the bottoms of their pants.
- It had a low neckline and a skirt that was slightly belled.

Phrases

bell the cat

Take the danger of a shared enterprise upon oneself.
（为集体的事情）承担危险
Example sentencesExamples
- His government should convince all political parties that it is time to bell the cat to implement the one-child norm for one and all.
- The real challenge is deciding whose job it is to bell the cat.
- Politicians should be brave enough to bell the cat and join forces to tackle the national task.
- I think the idea of approaching him one on one is good in terms of it being less likely to arouse defensiveness, although that makes one of you guys the person who has to bell the cat.
- But then someone has to bell the cat and the Metro Rail has to become a reality.
- Though the industry had been deliberating at length over the crisis for long, they failed to evolve a consensus and ultimately the exhibitors had to step in to bell the cat.
- Warner is to be lauded for his courage to bell the cat, albeit at the eleventh hour, and close this unfortunate chapter in the country's footballing history, by replacing St Clair.
- But the burning question is: who will bell the cat?
- It has become more of a question of who is to bell the cat.
- No community is likely to bell the cat by making gratuitous concessions on this issue.

bells and whistles

informal Attractive additional features or trimmings.
〈非正式〉附加的诱人特色（或点缀）
an advocate of more bells and whistles on the income tax code
Example sentencesExamples
- Cut out all the bells and whistles and stick to simple architecture.
- They want an integrated system with all the bells and whistles of high-end storage as standard features.
- Now most high-end computers cost only two thousand dollars, and these computers have all the bells and whistles.
- It has enough bells and whistles to satiate special effects fans, but not too many to cheapen the overall film.
- If you can live without the latest bells and whistles, then used equipment may be for you.
- The whole thing fizzes with furious energy and is more satisfying than plenty of albums with more technical bells and whistles.
- A young friend of mine got his first autofocus camera the other day - a fairly swish Canon, with quite a few of the bells and whistles.
- I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design.
- You'd think we'd have learnt how all the bells and whistles on our phones worked after that wouldn't you?
- It's got so many bells and whistles, it's taking time for me to get used to using it.

be saved by the bell

1(in boxing and other sports) avoid being counted out by the ringing of the bell at the end of a round.
（拳击和其他体育比赛一个回合的）开始（或结束）铃声
Example sentencesExamples
- Thompson felled Sellers twice in their amazing slug-fest, and the Yank was saved by the bell on both occasions.
- In the ninth round the champion was saved by the bell.
- He was saved by the bell in rounds five, six and seven.
- The visitor, whose legs were buckled by a left hook to the side of the head, was in fact saved by the bell in the first round.
- He was saved by the bell from a fourth round knock-out.
- With 25 seconds to go to the end of the round Cantwell suddenly found himself on his knees only to be saved by the bell on that occasion.
- But Clay was saved by the bell and went on to triumph over Cooper.
- Willard had been saved by the bell at the count of seven.
- He was knocked down twice in the ninth round and was saved by the bell.
- He went down two more times in the first round and was saved by the bell.
1. 1.1Escape from danger narrowly or by an unexpected intervention.
  （因意想不到的干预而）侥幸解围
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were saved by the bell when a courtly looking man, most likely a bodyguard, showed up out of nowhere, went up to the podium, and promptly announced that there was a bomb threat on the building.
  I had the sense that any moment another question would befall me - but I was saved by the bell.
  I was saved by the bell and reached for salvation before anyone else dreamed of moving - they were trying to wake up from their peaceful slumber.
  As with most other remarkable escapes, Morgan is saved by the bell.

(as) clear (or sound) as a bell

Perfectly clear (or sound)
极为清晰；完好
Aunt Nora's words came clear as a bell
Example sentencesExamples
- It switches between being clear as a bell, and being murky and distant.
- ‘Hi, this is Roger,’ said my buddy Roger - his voice clear as a bell on the answer phone.
- Then Rebecca moved through the audience to sing with a voice as clear as a bell.
- He said: ‘I still remember the day as clear as a bell.’
- The presentation here is distortion free and clear as a bell.
- Here I was speaking to a close friend of my uncle's for the first time ever, who although now in his 80s was as clear as a bell in his recounting of the old days.
- The soundtrack is clear of any major hiss or distortion with all aspects of the dialogue, effects, and music clear as a bell.
- When I got up the next morning, the dream was still clear as a bell, and it continues to stay with me until this day.
- ‘The pleasure's all mine,’ said the voice, which was rather high but smooth and rang out clear as a bell.
- I can still remember the day she died as clear as a bell.
Synonyms
distinctly, clearly, as clear as a bell, plainly, audibly, intelligibly, with clarity
distinct, bell-like, as clear as a bell, clarion, pure

ring a bell

informal Revive a distant recollection; sound familiar.
〈非正式〉唤起遥远的回忆；听上去熟悉
the name Woodall rings a bell
这名字听起来挺熟。
Example sentencesExamples
- That girl's name rang a bell, but she couldn't remember where from.
- While her name might not ring a bell in the minds of most people, the festival will screen a ‘snippet’ from her body of work titled ‘Harlequin’.
- If these names ring a bell and you can supply further information please contact us.
- While her name might not ring a bell, her songs definitely do.
- One of the country's legendary tenor saxophone players, his name might not ring a bell for those who are not in tune with Jazz in India, but he deserves to be remembered.
- If Blackwell's name doesn't ring a bell with you, that's understandable.
- The name rings a bell, but I can't put my finger on why.
- If the name rings a bell, it is because he might have helped you buy a book, film or album.
- If that name doesn't ring a bell, you're not alone.
- The name rang a bell, though she couldn't quite place it.

with bells on

informal Enthusiastically.
〈北美，非正式〉热情地
everybody's waiting for you with bells on
大家都在热情地等着你。
Example sentencesExamples
- Also, he's coming to town, again, on the 13 th, and I will be there with bells on.
- Just let me know when you're ready, and I'll be there with bells on.
- I'll be there with bells on, though that might make us a little conspicuous.
- They're doing it with bells on.
- I mean, even if she didn't feel well, she would be there with bells on.
- ‘I'll be there with bells on,’ Aidan said as he slid out of the car.
- Any sane New York politician who can walk or crawl into the Plaza will be there with bells on, soaking up the good press.
- I'll be there with bells on, I promise - but what about the game?
- Bradley said, standing up, ‘I'm waiting with bells on, Mr. Lauderdale, so why don't you hit me?
- The audience is likely to show up for ‘A Christmas Classique,’ by pianist Lorie Line and her pop chamber orchestra, with bells on.

Origin

Old English belle, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bel, and perhaps to bell.

bell²

nounbɛlbel

The cry of a stag or buck at rutting time.
（雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声
Example sentencesExamples
- We organise evening visits to the animal reserve on these two special weekends to listen to the stag's bell and the clashing of the antlers as the animals fight.
- Our guides will have you listen to the bell of the stag at the mating season or observe the animals from watch towers.

verbbɛlbel

[no object]

(of a stag or buck) make a cry at rutting time.
（雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声
Example sentencesExamples
- My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder.
- The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks.
- My very earliest memories include playing beneath the trees and listening to the stags belling in the dusk.
- During the rut in October and November you can hear the stags belling or roaring.
- Just then a stag belled loudly.

Origin

Old English bellan ‘to bellow’, of Germanic origin; related to German bellen ‘to bark, bray’, and perhaps also to bell.

Bell³

proper nounbɛlbel

A city in southwestern California, southeast of Los Angeles; population 36,657 (est. 2008).

proper noun

Currer, Ellis, and Acton, the pseudonyms used by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, respectively.

词汇	bell
释义	bell¹ noun bɛlbɛl 1A hollow metal object, typically in the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, especially by means of a clapper inside. 铃，钟 the church bells tolled a bell tinkled as he went in the shop as modifier the bell chamber of the church spire Example sentencesExamples It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower. He partook of a leisurely breakfast, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air. Suddenly, the serenity is pierced by the distinct tone of a ringing bell. The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking. Suddenly, the sound of clear bells came bouncing up the sides of the mountain ranges from the town by the river below. Those clanging bells reminded me of another vendor who used to make similar rounds in the neighbourhood. He often chimed the bells himself before service. As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll. At noon the bell on the guardhouse tower and several church bells began tolling for two hours. Nine enormous, new bronze bells are on their way to Paris to give the medieval Notre Dame Cathedral a more modern sound. The story goes that a large bell was tolled whenever the soup was prepared. Winter night closed in around me and I heard the faint sound of church bells chiming the hour. Three hundred and forty years earlier another bell ringer described his fear that the bell or the church tower would fall on top of him. Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell. It wasn't a bright sound like most bells, but more hollow and deep. In all cases, the shape of the bell is critical in projecting the sound, giving it much of its characteristic tone-colour and stabilizing its pitch. All of a sudden, the bell sounds, rather alarmingly. A bell tolled one long note of mourning as she realised this meant farewell not only to her father, but to her mother as well. The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells. At midnight, the bells would chime across the city, town or village. Synonyms chime, gong, alarm peal, knell, toll signal, warning, alert archaic tocsin 1.1 A device that includes or sounds like a bell, used to give a signal or warning. 信号铃，门铃，警铃，铃铛 a bicycle bell 自行车铃。 Example sentencesExamples He strikes the bike bell, and rolls away, the sound of the squeaky wheel dominating. Then the bell rang, signaling it was time to get to class. The final bell has just rung and we're free, free to party, sleep, or study. When we walked in, the door hit a charming brass bell and it made a soft ‘ding’. The warning bell rang, so I parted ways with Ivy, and went to my class. Five seconds into the take-off a warning bell sounds to inform the captain that there is a problem with the number two engine and that it is on fire. The warning bell for dinner rang, signaling for the household to start getting ready for dinner. Carter throws me a menacing look, but is unable to follow up with a threatening comment, because the bell has just rung. A man on a bicycle rode by, ringing his bell to signal people to move. The older, more tired man rings the bell to signal the bus to stop. The warning bell rang signaling two minutes before their next class. Just as I was about to answer, the shrill school bell sounded throughout the halls. It is in very good condition, and has a very loud bell. We were all in the process of changing when a loud, shrill bell sounded, warning us of a fire. When the school bell rang, she snuck quickly out and made her way to the rack where her bicycle waited. As the seventh hour dismissal bell sounded, I remained in my desk. She had pressed the bell indicating that she wanted the bus to halt at the next stop where she would disembark. After a few minutes of listening to the mindless chatter of my peers, the bell rang, signaling the movement of the student body to first period. But when she finally gained the front doors, she discovered neither bell nor knocker. Having just begun a fearsome maths test I still remember the surge of relief when the electric bell sounded its continuous warning. 1.2the bell (in boxing and other sports) a bell rung to mark the start or end of a round. （拳击和其他体育比赛一个回合的）开始（或结束）铃声 they were dragged off each other at the final bell 终场铃声响起，他们两人被拉开。 Example sentencesExamples Even at the bell to start the round she stood for a second and looked in disbelief at her coach. Johnson needed the judges help too, because there was no way the fight would end between first and final bell. Harrison could well have finished it but the bell intervened to his opponent's relief. At the bell for round one, he came out fast and was up on his toes circling to the left nonstop. He could barely contain himself when his opponent could not answer the bell for the seventh. Just as the bell ended the fifteenth round, Frazier put his hands up and yelled something at Ali. As the round ended, both fighters got toe-to-toe and exchanged savage blows until and after the bell. Sampson mauled Johnson the entire last half of the second round and the corner threw in the towel at the bell for round three. The referee stepped between them thinking he heard the bell ending the round. He struggled to his corner as the bell had already ended the round. Two minutes after the bell for round one, Liston was the new undisputed champ. Barkley charged out of his corner at the bell for the third round and backed Hearns into a corner. At the bell, he attacked and kept firing until the ref called a halt. By the fifth round, he had a point deducted for hitting after the bell. He won the world heavyweight title at the age of 22 when his opponent was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round. To their credit, the boys answered the bell for round two, but it didn't last long. He was still landing those bruising jabs at the bell in his going away triumph. He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell. Referee Tony Perez reached five in the count and the bell couldn't save Ellis. Right before the bell for the first round the anticipation was high. 2A bell-shaped object or part of something. 钟状物，钟状部分，尤指 2.1 The end of a trumpet or other brass instrument. the acoustic properties of a trumpet's bell Example sentencesExamples The bell of the trumpet is decorated with a garland bearing the maker's name and the place where the instrument was made. He made me an unbelievable trumpet with carvings and designs and a big double bell, like a space-age trumpet. Researchers in Germany have been looking carefully at the after glow of the big bang and have decided that the universe is shaped like a trumpet bell. 2.2Botany The corolla of a bell-shaped flower. 钟状花冠 a flower with small pale blue bells Example sentencesExamples Great black bees make their way from the bell of one flower to the petals of the next. The citron yellow or red tinged flowers are also worth having, hanging bells on tall stalks that dance in the wind and give way to upright seed heads for autumn interest. A few warm days and they will be growing rapidly, the flowers opening to reveal the familiar white bells with their crisp green markings. Salvia confertiflora is a half-hardy salvia with delicate orange bells along its stem. Flowers are borne on long thin stalks - tiny white bells that do not do any justice to the lovely plant. 2.3Zoology The umbrella of a jellyfish. the tiny jellyfish has a bell measuring five to ten millimetres wide 3bellsA musical instrument consisting of a set of metal tubes of different lengths, suspended in a frame and played by being struck with a hammer. 钟琴。亦称TUBULAR BELLS Also called tubular bells Example sentencesExamples The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments. Working with sampled bells, gongs and prepared piano, he then uses electronic equipment to process this first layer and continues to build up his compositions. He planted the two harps in front of the orchestra, on either side of his rostrum, and banished bells and drums to the unseen backstage. The bells in the final movement are much more forward and eerie. This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam. 4Nautical (preceded by a numeral) the time as indicated every half hour of a watch by the striking of the ship's bell one to eight times. 〔航海〕八击钟报时法（舰船的报时方法，在四小时的值班时间里每隔半小时敲钟报时，每次报时敲钟次数从一次递增至八次） at five bells in the forenoon of June 11 6月11日上午五击钟（即10点30分）。 Example sentencesExamples The bell tolled the last of eight bells in the afternoon on Dolphin. Hornblower left the first watch at four bells, entered the cabin, and sat writing in the log by the light of a single candle and the ceiling lantern. Eight bells brought him back from the run before the wind. verb bɛlbɛl 1with object Provide with a bell or bells. 装钟于，系铃于 the young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them Example sentencesExamples He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question. She readjusted her jingling belled hat. Oh yes, and health inspectors should be belled like lepers. He paled below his silly, belled jester's hat. 2no object Make a ringing sound likened to that of a bell. 发出响铃（或敲钟）般的声音 the organ was belling away 2.1British informal with object Telephone (someone) 〈英，非正式〉给（某人）打电话 no problem, I'll bell her tomorrow Example sentencesExamples I'll bell you or you bell me tonight about arrangements for tomorrow. She belled me tonight to see if you girls have any advice. 3no object Spread outwards like the lip of a bell. 成喇叭口（或钟口）状展开（或鼓起） her shirt belled out behind 她的衬衫背面鼓了起来。 Example sentencesExamples Eventually, it creaked to a juddering, shrieking stop and a huge door, rust-pitted, streaked with red and belled outwards with age ground slowly aside. Reaching over to fix the long, belled sleeves of the dress, Betty smiled warmly. He was wearing a red V-neck shirt with long sleeves that belled out near the hands, white jeans, and black slip-on shoes with thick white socks. The dress was very elegant with long, belled sleeves and a golden rope for a belt. It had a low neckline and a skirt that was slightly belled. well if not a peasant top has belled sleeves and nothing goes on the shoulders or around the neck. It had a low cut V-neck, and the sleeves belled out into dramatic triangular petals. A maroon, silk ribbon tied right below her elbow where more sheer fabric belled out right above her wrist. Adjust the expander die to bell the mouth just enough to allow a bullet to start cleanly and case life will be extended considerably. The sleeves were belled, and it all sparkled as if enchanted. She wore a tight black velvet shirt with a low neck and long sleeves that belled out. Her green dress belled out around her with the speed of his dancing, and she felt like magic… She looked at it again, it was black and sleek and pretty, and it belled out around her a little above her knees. The top was very tight fitting, with a skirt that belled out at the waist. There was a lower neck line with blue lace and belled sleeves. The sleeves were long and belled out slightly at the wrists. His legs donned somewhat baggy khaki pants and a light blue button down shirt that belled out at his wrists. At the end he found a small slot that belled out above a sandy floor - and an absence of footprints. Although I couldn't move my head, I knew that the walls of the rift belled out beneath me and narrowed above, forming the tightest part of the rift. Taña paints and teaches the local girls how to bell the bottoms of their pants. Phrases bell the cat Take the danger of a shared enterprise upon oneself. （为集体的事情）承担危险 Example sentencesExamples Though the industry had been deliberating at length over the crisis for long, they failed to evolve a consensus and ultimately the exhibitors had to step in to bell the cat. No community is likely to bell the cat by making gratuitous concessions on this issue. Politicians should be brave enough to bell the cat and join forces to tackle the national task. It has become more of a question of who is to bell the cat. The real challenge is deciding whose job it is to bell the cat. His government should convince all political parties that it is time to bell the cat to implement the one-child norm for one and all. Warner is to be lauded for his courage to bell the cat, albeit at the eleventh hour, and close this unfortunate chapter in the country's footballing history, by replacing St Clair. But the burning question is: who will bell the cat? I think the idea of approaching him one on one is good in terms of it being less likely to arouse defensiveness, although that makes one of you guys the person who has to bell the cat. But then someone has to bell the cat and the Metro Rail has to become a reality. bells and whistles informal Attractive additional features or trimmings. 〈非正式〉附加的诱人特色（或点缀） the company is putting bells and whistles on its notebook computer Example sentencesExamples It has enough bells and whistles to satiate special effects fans, but not too many to cheapen the overall film. You'd think we'd have learnt how all the bells and whistles on our phones worked after that wouldn't you? If you can live without the latest bells and whistles, then used equipment may be for you. The whole thing fizzes with furious energy and is more satisfying than plenty of albums with more technical bells and whistles. It's got so many bells and whistles, it's taking time for me to get used to using it. A young friend of mine got his first autofocus camera the other day - a fairly swish Canon, with quite a few of the bells and whistles. Now most high-end computers cost only two thousand dollars, and these computers have all the bells and whistles. They want an integrated system with all the bells and whistles of high-end storage as standard features. I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design. Cut out all the bells and whistles and stick to simple architecture. be saved by the bell 1(in boxing and other sports) be saved from being counted out by the ringing of the bell at the end of a round. 被铃声解救（拳击或其他体育项目中因铃声宣布一个回合结束而幸免未被判输） Example sentencesExamples In the ninth round the champion was saved by the bell. But Clay was saved by the bell and went on to triumph over Cooper. He was saved by the bell in rounds five, six and seven. He went down two more times in the first round and was saved by the bell. Willard had been saved by the bell at the count of seven. He was knocked down twice in the ninth round and was saved by the bell. He was saved by the bell from a fourth round knock-out. The visitor, whose legs were buckled by a left hook to the side of the head, was in fact saved by the bell in the first round. Thompson felled Sellers twice in their amazing slug-fest, and the Yank was saved by the bell on both occasions. With 25 seconds to go to the end of the round Cantwell suddenly found himself on his knees only to be saved by the bell on that occasion. 1.1Escape from a difficult situation narrowly or by an unexpected intervention. （因意想不到的干预而）侥幸解围 Example sentencesExamples I had the sense that any moment another question would befall me - but I was saved by the bell. I was saved by the bell and reached for salvation before anyone else dreamed of moving - they were trying to wake up from their peaceful slumber. They were saved by the bell when a courtly looking man, most likely a bodyguard, showed up out of nowhere, went up to the podium, and promptly announced that there was a bomb threat on the building. As with most other remarkable escapes, Morgan is saved by the bell. (as) clear (or sound) as a bell Perfectly clear (or sound) 极为清晰；完好 Aunt Nora's words came clear as a bell Example sentencesExamples Here I was speaking to a close friend of my uncle's for the first time ever, who although now in his 80s was as clear as a bell in his recounting of the old days. The soundtrack is clear of any major hiss or distortion with all aspects of the dialogue, effects, and music clear as a bell. ‘Hi, this is Roger,’ said my buddy Roger - his voice clear as a bell on the answer phone. Then Rebecca moved through the audience to sing with a voice as clear as a bell. ‘The pleasure's all mine,’ said the voice, which was rather high but smooth and rang out clear as a bell. He said: ‘I still remember the day as clear as a bell.’ It switches between being clear as a bell, and being murky and distant. When I got up the next morning, the dream was still clear as a bell, and it continues to stay with me until this day. The presentation here is distortion free and clear as a bell. I can still remember the day she died as clear as a bell. Synonyms distinctly, clearly, as clear as a bell, plainly, audibly, intelligibly, with clarity distinct, bell-like, as clear as a bell, clarion, pure give someone a bell informal Telephone someone. 〈英，非正式〉给（某人）打电话 tell him to give me a bell at the garage Example sentencesExamples So Mums and Dads, Grannies and Granddads give us a bell and let us know who is about and we wont leave anyone out. ‘Well if you ever want someone to play keyboards give us a bell,’ he said. Just give him a bell and get him over, tell him I thought it was important, ok? A person with an interest in the shopping centre project at the time gave us a bell to tell us his memory of the background to the matter of the bridge. I'm just giving you a bell to see if you've got anything or not. He gave us a bell this afternoon to raise a few problems. So I bought a couple of beers on my way into Newtown, I gave Sandy a bell to see what was up, as I thought being woken up with a beer would be nice. I gave her a bell there and she seems rather too calm. If you want the address of a chiropractor, give me a bell. For more info, give Julia Glass a bell on 045 403396. Synonyms phone, call, get someone on the phone, get on the phone to, get, reach, dial, make a call to, place a call to ring a bell informal Sound vaguely familiar. the name rings a bell 这名字听起来挺熟。 Example sentencesExamples While her name might not ring a bell in the minds of most people, the festival will screen a ‘snippet’ from her body of work titled ‘Harlequin’. The name rings a bell, but I can't put my finger on why. While her name might not ring a bell, her songs definitely do. If that name doesn't ring a bell, you're not alone. The name rang a bell, though she couldn't quite place it. If the name rings a bell, it is because he might have helped you buy a book, film or album. If these names ring a bell and you can supply further information please contact us. One of the country's legendary tenor saxophone players, his name might not ring a bell for those who are not in tune with Jazz in India, but he deserves to be remembered. If Blackwell's name doesn't ring a bell with you, that's understandable. That girl's name rang a bell, but she couldn't remember where from. with bells on informal Enthusiastically. 〈北美，非正式〉热情地 everybody's waiting for you with bells on 大家都在热情地等着你。 Example sentencesExamples Just let me know when you're ready, and I'll be there with bells on. ‘I'll be there with bells on,’ Aidan said as he slid out of the car. The audience is likely to show up for ‘A Christmas Classique,’ by pianist Lorie Line and her pop chamber orchestra, with bells on. I'll be there with bells on, though that might make us a little conspicuous. Any sane New York politician who can walk or crawl into the Plaza will be there with bells on, soaking up the good press. I mean, even if she didn't feel well, she would be there with bells on. I'll be there with bells on, I promise - but what about the game? Also, he's coming to town, again, on the 13 th, and I will be there with bells on. Bradley said, standing up, ‘I'm waiting with bells on, Mr. Lauderdale, so why don't you hit me? They're doing it with bells on. Origin Old English belle, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bel, and perhaps to bell². Rhymes Adele, Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, belle, boatel, Brunel, Cadell, carousel, cartel, cell, Chanel, chanterelle, clientele, Clonmel, compel, Cornell, crime passionnel, dell, demoiselle, dispel, dwell, el, ell, Estelle, excel, expel, farewell, fell, Fidel, fontanelle, foretell, Gabrielle, gazelle, gel, Giselle, hell, hotel, impel, knell, lapel, mademoiselle, maître d'hôtel, Manuel, marcel, matériel, mesdemoiselles, Michel, Michelle, Miguel, misspell, morel, moschatel, Moselle, motel, muscatel, nacelle, Nell, Nobel, Noel, organelle, outsell, Parnell, pell-mell, personnel, propel, quell, quenelle, rappel, Raquel, Ravel, rebel, repel, Rochelle, Sahel, sardelle, sell, shell, show-and-tell, smell, Snell, spell, spinel, swell, tell, undersell, vielle, villanelle, well, yell bell² noun bɛlbɛl The characteristic cry of a stag or buck at rutting time. （雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声 Example sentencesExamples Our guides will have you listen to the bell of the stag at the mating season or observe the animals from watch towers. We organise evening visits to the animal reserve on these two special weekends to listen to the stag's bell and the clashing of the antlers as the animals fight. verb bɛlbɛl [no object] (of a stag or buck) make a cry at rutting time. （雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声 Example sentencesExamples My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder. Just then a stag belled loudly. The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks. My very earliest memories include playing beneath the trees and listening to the stags belling in the dusk. During the rut in October and November you can hear the stags belling or roaring. Origin Old English bellan 'to bellow', of Germanic origin; related to German bellen 'to bark, bray', and perhaps also to bell¹. Bell³ proper nounbɛlbɛl A city in south-western California, south-east of Los Angeles; population 36,657 (est. 2008). proper noun Currer, Ellis, and Acton, the pseudonyms used by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. noun.1 phr. noun.2 name.1 bell¹ nounbɛlbel 1A hollow object, typically made of metal and having the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, typically by means of a clapper inside. 铃，钟 the church bells tolled a bell tinkled as he went in the shop as modifier the bell chamber of the church spire Example sentencesExamples At midnight, the bells would chime across the city, town or village. Nine enormous, new bronze bells are on their way to Paris to give the medieval Notre Dame Cathedral a more modern sound. The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells. Three hundred and forty years earlier another bell ringer described his fear that the bell or the church tower would fall on top of him. It wasn't a bright sound like most bells, but more hollow and deep. In all cases, the shape of the bell is critical in projecting the sound, giving it much of its characteristic tone-colour and stabilizing its pitch. He partook of a leisurely breakfast, and set off to the sound of church bells in the clear air. As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll. A bell tolled one long note of mourning as she realised this meant farewell not only to her father, but to her mother as well. He often chimed the bells himself before service. Suddenly, the sound of clear bells came bouncing up the sides of the mountain ranges from the town by the river below. Those clanging bells reminded me of another vendor who used to make similar rounds in the neighbourhood. The story goes that a large bell was tolled whenever the soup was prepared. Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell. Winter night closed in around me and I heard the faint sound of church bells chiming the hour. It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower. At noon the bell on the guardhouse tower and several church bells began tolling for two hours. Suddenly, the serenity is pierced by the distinct tone of a ringing bell. All of a sudden, the bell sounds, rather alarmingly. The soldier's fiancé had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking. Synonyms chime, gong, alarm 1.1 A device that includes or sounds like a bell, used to give a signal or warning. 信号铃，门铃，警铃，铃铛 a bicycle bell 自行车铃。 Example sentencesExamples The warning bell for dinner rang, signaling for the household to start getting ready for dinner. But when she finally gained the front doors, she discovered neither bell nor knocker. Just as I was about to answer, the shrill school bell sounded throughout the halls. He strikes the bike bell, and rolls away, the sound of the squeaky wheel dominating. Carter throws me a menacing look, but is unable to follow up with a threatening comment, because the bell has just rung. It is in very good condition, and has a very loud bell. A man on a bicycle rode by, ringing his bell to signal people to move. When the school bell rang, she snuck quickly out and made her way to the rack where her bicycle waited. As the seventh hour dismissal bell sounded, I remained in my desk. We were all in the process of changing when a loud, shrill bell sounded, warning us of a fire. After a few minutes of listening to the mindless chatter of my peers, the bell rang, signaling the movement of the student body to first period. Then the bell rang, signaling it was time to get to class. The final bell has just rung and we're free, free to party, sleep, or study. The warning bell rang signaling two minutes before their next class. The older, more tired man rings the bell to signal the bus to stop. Five seconds into the take-off a warning bell sounds to inform the captain that there is a problem with the number two engine and that it is on fire. The warning bell rang, so I parted ways with Ivy, and went to my class. She had pressed the bell indicating that she wanted the bus to halt at the next stop where she would disembark. When we walked in, the door hit a charming brass bell and it made a soft ‘ding’. Having just begun a fearsome maths test I still remember the surge of relief when the electric bell sounded its continuous warning. 1.2the bell A bell rung to denote intervals of time, such as (in boxing and other sports) to mark the start or end of a round. （拳击和其他体育比赛一个回合的）开始（或结束）铃声 at the bell, we dashed out of Latin class the fight went to the final bell for a decision Example sentencesExamples At the bell for round one, he came out fast and was up on his toes circling to the left nonstop. Right before the bell for the first round the anticipation was high. Harrison could well have finished it but the bell intervened to his opponent's relief. He won the world heavyweight title at the age of 22 when his opponent was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round. He struggled to his corner as the bell had already ended the round. As the round ended, both fighters got toe-to-toe and exchanged savage blows until and after the bell. Two minutes after the bell for round one, Liston was the new undisputed champ. To their credit, the boys answered the bell for round two, but it didn't last long. Barkley charged out of his corner at the bell for the third round and backed Hearns into a corner. Johnson needed the judges help too, because there was no way the fight would end between first and final bell. Even at the bell to start the round she stood for a second and looked in disbelief at her coach. He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell. Referee Tony Perez reached five in the count and the bell couldn't save Ellis. He could barely contain himself when his opponent could not answer the bell for the seventh. He was still landing those bruising jabs at the bell in his going away triumph. At the bell, he attacked and kept firing until the ref called a halt. The referee stepped between them thinking he heard the bell ending the round. By the fifth round, he had a point deducted for hitting after the bell. Just as the bell ended the fifteenth round, Frazier put his hands up and yelled something at Ali. Sampson mauled Johnson the entire last half of the second round and the corner threw in the towel at the bell for round three. 2A bell-shaped object or part of something. 钟状物，钟状部分，尤指 2.1 The end of a trumpet or other brass instrument. the acoustic properties of a trumpet's bell Example sentencesExamples The bell of the trumpet is decorated with a garland bearing the maker's name and the place where the instrument was made. He made me an unbelievable trumpet with carvings and designs and a big double bell, like a space-age trumpet. Researchers in Germany have been looking carefully at the after glow of the big bang and have decided that the universe is shaped like a trumpet bell. 2.2Botany The corolla of a bell-shaped flower. 钟状花冠 a flower with small pale blue bells Example sentencesExamples The citron yellow or red tinged flowers are also worth having, hanging bells on tall stalks that dance in the wind and give way to upright seed heads for autumn interest. Salvia confertiflora is a half-hardy salvia with delicate orange bells along its stem. Great black bees make their way from the bell of one flower to the petals of the next. A few warm days and they will be growing rapidly, the flowers opening to reveal the familiar white bells with their crisp green markings. Flowers are borne on long thin stalks - tiny white bells that do not do any justice to the lovely plant. 2.3Zoology The umbrella of a jellyfish. the tiny jellyfish has a bell measuring five to ten millimeters wide 3bellsA musical instrument consisting of a set of cylindrical metal tubes of different lengths, suspended in a frame and played by being struck with a hammer. 钟琴。亦称TUBULAR BELLS Also called tubular bells Example sentencesExamples This arrangement demands an extremely colourful orchestra that includes piccolo, four horns, harp, orchestral bells, and tam-tam. He planted the two harps in front of the orchestra, on either side of his rostrum, and banished bells and drums to the unseen backstage. The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments. The bells in the final movement are much more forward and eerie. Working with sampled bells, gongs and prepared piano, he then uses electronic equipment to process this first layer and continues to build up his compositions. 4Nautical (preceded by a numeral) the time as indicated every half hour of a watch by the striking of the ship's bell one to eight times. 〔航海〕八击钟报时法（舰船的报时方法，在四小时的值班时间里每隔半小时敲钟报时，每次报时敲钟次数从一次递增至八次） at five bells in the forenoon of June 11 6月11日上午五击钟（即10点30分）。 Example sentencesExamples Eight bells brought him back from the run before the wind. Hornblower left the first watch at four bells, entered the cabin, and sat writing in the log by the light of a single candle and the ceiling lantern. The bell tolled the last of eight bells in the afternoon on Dolphin. verbbɛlbel 1with object Provide with a bell or bells; attach a bell or bells to. 装钟于，系铃于 the young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them Example sentencesExamples Oh yes, and health inspectors should be belled like lepers. He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question. He paled below his silly, belled jester's hat. She readjusted her jingling belled hat. 2no object Make a ringing sound likened to that of a bell. 发出响铃（或敲钟）般的声音 the organ belling away 3no object Spread or flare outward like the lip of a bell. 成喇叭口（或钟口）状展开（或鼓起） her shirt belled out behind 她的衬衫背面鼓了起来。 Example sentencesExamples His legs donned somewhat baggy khaki pants and a light blue button down shirt that belled out at his wrists. She looked at it again, it was black and sleek and pretty, and it belled out around her a little above her knees. At the end he found a small slot that belled out above a sandy floor - and an absence of footprints. The top was very tight fitting, with a skirt that belled out at the waist. She wore a tight black velvet shirt with a low neck and long sleeves that belled out. It had a low cut V-neck, and the sleeves belled out into dramatic triangular petals. A maroon, silk ribbon tied right below her elbow where more sheer fabric belled out right above her wrist. He was wearing a red V-neck shirt with long sleeves that belled out near the hands, white jeans, and black slip-on shoes with thick white socks. Eventually, it creaked to a juddering, shrieking stop and a huge door, rust-pitted, streaked with red and belled outwards with age ground slowly aside. Her green dress belled out around her with the speed of his dancing, and she felt like magic… Reaching over to fix the long, belled sleeves of the dress, Betty smiled warmly. There was a lower neck line with blue lace and belled sleeves. well if not a peasant top has belled sleeves and nothing goes on the shoulders or around the neck. The dress was very elegant with long, belled sleeves and a golden rope for a belt. Adjust the expander die to bell the mouth just enough to allow a bullet to start cleanly and case life will be extended considerably. Although I couldn't move my head, I knew that the walls of the rift belled out beneath me and narrowed above, forming the tightest part of the rift. The sleeves were long and belled out slightly at the wrists. The sleeves were belled, and it all sparkled as if enchanted. Taña paints and teaches the local girls how to bell the bottoms of their pants. It had a low neckline and a skirt that was slightly belled. Phrases bell the cat Take the danger of a shared enterprise upon oneself. （为集体的事情）承担危险 Example sentencesExamples His government should convince all political parties that it is time to bell the cat to implement the one-child norm for one and all. The real challenge is deciding whose job it is to bell the cat. Politicians should be brave enough to bell the cat and join forces to tackle the national task. I think the idea of approaching him one on one is good in terms of it being less likely to arouse defensiveness, although that makes one of you guys the person who has to bell the cat. But then someone has to bell the cat and the Metro Rail has to become a reality. Though the industry had been deliberating at length over the crisis for long, they failed to evolve a consensus and ultimately the exhibitors had to step in to bell the cat. Warner is to be lauded for his courage to bell the cat, albeit at the eleventh hour, and close this unfortunate chapter in the country's footballing history, by replacing St Clair. But the burning question is: who will bell the cat? It has become more of a question of who is to bell the cat. No community is likely to bell the cat by making gratuitous concessions on this issue. bells and whistles informal Attractive additional features or trimmings. 〈非正式〉附加的诱人特色（或点缀） an advocate of more bells and whistles on the income tax code Example sentencesExamples Cut out all the bells and whistles and stick to simple architecture. They want an integrated system with all the bells and whistles of high-end storage as standard features. Now most high-end computers cost only two thousand dollars, and these computers have all the bells and whistles. It has enough bells and whistles to satiate special effects fans, but not too many to cheapen the overall film. If you can live without the latest bells and whistles, then used equipment may be for you. The whole thing fizzes with furious energy and is more satisfying than plenty of albums with more technical bells and whistles. A young friend of mine got his first autofocus camera the other day - a fairly swish Canon, with quite a few of the bells and whistles. I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design. You'd think we'd have learnt how all the bells and whistles on our phones worked after that wouldn't you? It's got so many bells and whistles, it's taking time for me to get used to using it. be saved by the bell 1(in boxing and other sports) avoid being counted out by the ringing of the bell at the end of a round. （拳击和其他体育比赛一个回合的）开始（或结束）铃声 Example sentencesExamples Thompson felled Sellers twice in their amazing slug-fest, and the Yank was saved by the bell on both occasions. In the ninth round the champion was saved by the bell. He was saved by the bell in rounds five, six and seven. The visitor, whose legs were buckled by a left hook to the side of the head, was in fact saved by the bell in the first round. He was saved by the bell from a fourth round knock-out. With 25 seconds to go to the end of the round Cantwell suddenly found himself on his knees only to be saved by the bell on that occasion. But Clay was saved by the bell and went on to triumph over Cooper. Willard had been saved by the bell at the count of seven. He was knocked down twice in the ninth round and was saved by the bell. He went down two more times in the first round and was saved by the bell. 1.1Escape from danger narrowly or by an unexpected intervention. （因意想不到的干预而）侥幸解围 Example sentencesExamples They were saved by the bell when a courtly looking man, most likely a bodyguard, showed up out of nowhere, went up to the podium, and promptly announced that there was a bomb threat on the building. I had the sense that any moment another question would befall me - but I was saved by the bell. I was saved by the bell and reached for salvation before anyone else dreamed of moving - they were trying to wake up from their peaceful slumber. As with most other remarkable escapes, Morgan is saved by the bell. (as) clear (or sound) as a bell Perfectly clear (or sound) 极为清晰；完好 Aunt Nora's words came clear as a bell Example sentencesExamples It switches between being clear as a bell, and being murky and distant. ‘Hi, this is Roger,’ said my buddy Roger - his voice clear as a bell on the answer phone. Then Rebecca moved through the audience to sing with a voice as clear as a bell. He said: ‘I still remember the day as clear as a bell.’ The presentation here is distortion free and clear as a bell. Here I was speaking to a close friend of my uncle's for the first time ever, who although now in his 80s was as clear as a bell in his recounting of the old days. The soundtrack is clear of any major hiss or distortion with all aspects of the dialogue, effects, and music clear as a bell. When I got up the next morning, the dream was still clear as a bell, and it continues to stay with me until this day. ‘The pleasure's all mine,’ said the voice, which was rather high but smooth and rang out clear as a bell. I can still remember the day she died as clear as a bell. Synonyms distinctly, clearly, as clear as a bell, plainly, audibly, intelligibly, with clarity distinct, bell-like, as clear as a bell, clarion, pure ring a bell informal Revive a distant recollection; sound familiar. 〈非正式〉唤起遥远的回忆；听上去熟悉 the name Woodall rings a bell 这名字听起来挺熟。 Example sentencesExamples That girl's name rang a bell, but she couldn't remember where from. While her name might not ring a bell in the minds of most people, the festival will screen a ‘snippet’ from her body of work titled ‘Harlequin’. If these names ring a bell and you can supply further information please contact us. While her name might not ring a bell, her songs definitely do. One of the country's legendary tenor saxophone players, his name might not ring a bell for those who are not in tune with Jazz in India, but he deserves to be remembered. If Blackwell's name doesn't ring a bell with you, that's understandable. The name rings a bell, but I can't put my finger on why. If the name rings a bell, it is because he might have helped you buy a book, film or album. If that name doesn't ring a bell, you're not alone. The name rang a bell, though she couldn't quite place it. with bells on informal Enthusiastically. 〈北美，非正式〉热情地 everybody's waiting for you with bells on 大家都在热情地等着你。 Example sentencesExamples Also, he's coming to town, again, on the 13 th, and I will be there with bells on. Just let me know when you're ready, and I'll be there with bells on. I'll be there with bells on, though that might make us a little conspicuous. They're doing it with bells on. I mean, even if she didn't feel well, she would be there with bells on. ‘I'll be there with bells on,’ Aidan said as he slid out of the car. Any sane New York politician who can walk or crawl into the Plaza will be there with bells on, soaking up the good press. I'll be there with bells on, I promise - but what about the game? Bradley said, standing up, ‘I'm waiting with bells on, Mr. Lauderdale, so why don't you hit me? The audience is likely to show up for ‘A Christmas Classique,’ by pianist Lorie Line and her pop chamber orchestra, with bells on. Origin Old English belle, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bel, and perhaps to bell. bell² nounbɛlbel The cry of a stag or buck at rutting time. （雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声 Example sentencesExamples We organise evening visits to the animal reserve on these two special weekends to listen to the stag's bell and the clashing of the antlers as the animals fight. Our guides will have you listen to the bell of the stag at the mating season or observe the animals from watch towers. verbbɛlbel [no object] (of a stag or buck) make a cry at rutting time. （雄鹿或其他某些雄性动物）发情时的叫声 Example sentencesExamples My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder. The wood in the half-light waking at daybreak to the belling of stags that bursts into barks. My very earliest memories include playing beneath the trees and listening to the stags belling in the dusk. During the rut in October and November you can hear the stags belling or roaring. Just then a stag belled loudly. Origin Old English bellan ‘to bellow’, of Germanic origin; related to German bellen ‘to bark, bray’, and perhaps also to bell. Bell³ proper nounbɛlbel A city in southwestern California, southeast of Los Angeles; population 36,657 (est. 2008). proper noun Currer, Ellis, and Acton, the pseudonyms used by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, respectively. noun.1 phr. noun.2 name.1
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