beat the drum
击鼓传花,打鼓,敲锣打鼓,击鼓
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plural drums, drum.
- : a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- : any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.
- : the sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.
- : any rumbling or deep booming sound.
- : a natural organ by which an animal produces a loud or bass sound.
- : eardrum.
- : any cylindrical object with flat ends.
- : a cylindrical part of a machine.
- : a cylindrical box or receptacle, especially a large, metal one for storing or transporting liquids.
- : Also called tambour .Architecture. any of several cylindrical or nearly cylindrical stones laid one above the other to form a column or pier.a cylindrical or faceted construction supporting a dome.
- : any of several marine and freshwater fishes of the family Sciaenidae that produce a drumming sound.
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It also would have enhanced the sounds of drums or other musical instruments, Cox says.
All that to be said, I think the drum we advertisers need to be beating isn’t primarily “who owns the data”, though certainly let’s get that determined.
Clicking on different objects, like the clock and the piano, prompts the user to adjust different tracks, like the drum line and melody.
Authorities are trying to figure out what to do about a drum circle in Ocean Beach.
As our lives pass day by day, the beating drums of the weekly routine take over and years pass until we reach our goal of retirement.
Even his signature instrument, Auto-Tune, has become as accepted an ingredient in hip-hop as the drum machine.
One man, straddling a large drum, keeps time as their voices rise in song: “Believe it, people, Ebola can kill.”
They marched through the streets of downtown New York to the synchronized beats of the Continental drum corps that followed.
It sounds familiar—right down to the media drum beat to lower physician pay.
And much of his most inspired playing, in his final years, came in the context of sax-drum duets.
Roulard had played the trumpet in the regimental band in which Aristide had played the kettle drum.
There a familiar sound met his ears—the roll of a drum followed by an incantation in a quavering, high-pitched voice.
"I wonder if 'twas a brass drum, such as has 'Eblubust Unum' printed on't," said Mrs. Slocum.
His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.