外部链接:    leo英德   dict有道 百度搜索百度 google谷歌 google图片 wiki维基 百度百科百科   

 baton [bæ'tn.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 指挥棒, 接力棒, 警棍

  1. The drum majorette twirled her baton.
    鼓乐队女队长快速地转动她的指挥棒。
  2. A conductor's baton.
    指挥棒乐队指挥用的小棒
  3. The conductor waved his baton, and the band started up.
    指挥挥动指挥棒,乐队开始演奏起来。


baton
[ noun ]
  1. a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir

  2. <noun.artifact>
  3. a short stout club used primarily by policemen

  4. <noun.artifact>
  5. a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority

  6. <noun.artifact>
  7. a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette

  8. <noun.artifact>
  9. a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race

  10. <noun.artifact>


Baton \Bat"on\ (b[a^]t"[u^]n, F. b[aum]`t[^o]N"; 277), n. [F.
b[^a]ton. See {Baston}.]
1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the
baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in
musical performances.

He held the baton of command. --Prescott.

2. (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister
as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in
breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also {bastard
bar}. See {Bend sinister}.

  1. Anthony Michaels-Moore did good service as Creon and the Messenger; the BBC Symphony Chorus had been well drilled. The firm grip on the conductor's baton that kept the Stravinsky taut was also brought to bear upon the Strauss.
  2. All have lifted the baton in Karajan's place in recent months.
  3. The abdication from responsibility for the West Bank by Jordan's King Hussein six weeks ago clearly handed the baton to Mr. Arafat and the PLO.
  4. South Africa has delivered itself of a political miracle: sometime in the dark hours of November 18, almost imperceptibly, white hands let go their 350-year grip on the baton of power.
  5. Still, someone with more influence than Bush now must mount the podium, pick up a baton and turn confusion and discord into harmony if the government is to survive after Oct. 19 and if the nation is to begin to climb out of its $3 trillion hole.
  6. Hundreds of extras; serial cannons spitting smoke; and an aerial camera weaving like a conductor's baton to Randy Edelmann's remorselessly 'stirring' music. We are stirred.
  7. THIS YEAR Madrid has unobtrusively taken over the baton from Dublin and is the 1992 European City of Culture.
  8. Although he figuratively passed the GOP political baton to Bush last week at the party's New Orleans convention, President Reagan gave it another hearty wave Saturday.
  9. Six men with top hats and canes were listed as tapdancing. They did a few novelty steps and one expertly twirled his cane like a baton.
  10. But they were still at a fragile early stage, lacking as yet the participation of Israeli government officials. Mr Holst later said he 'took over the baton' in a relay.
  11. Not until they had finished a choreographic sequence did the acquiescent conductor bring his baton down. What was true for the ballerinas was also true for the company as a whole.
  12. In school, she recalls, people tried to persuade her that she and her baton were unlikely to find steady work.
  13. She kicked me and I was able to recover before the baton came down." Allen said his most exciting challenge came during a 1987 performance of Wagner's "Parsifal." "It was the middle of the first act, and suddenly I heard: `Curtain coming down.'
  14. The police quieted the crowd with mild baton charges.
  15. And it found itself trying to pass this baton to a U.S. not all that dominant and certainly not all that eager to receive the baton.
  16. And it found itself trying to pass this baton to a U.S. not all that dominant and certainly not all that eager to receive the baton.
  17. Washington I was intrigued by Barbara Jepson's reference to "occasional baton stabbings" among the hazards of orchestral conducting in her column "On Records" (Leisure & Arts page, Jan. 6).
  18. Not knowing how to handle the chorus, Mr. Wilson tucked it away in the pit, where the musicians were already having a rough time under Gary Bertini's flaccid baton.
加入收藏 本地收藏 百度搜藏 QQ书签 美味书签 Google书签 Mister Wong
您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩,登录后发现......
验证码看不清,请点击刷新
  注册