The bell tower is the emblem of this city. 这座钟楼是这个城市的象征。
A musical bell softly sounded somewhere in the passageway. 走廊的某处响起轻柔悦耳的铃声。
bell
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a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
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a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
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the sound of a bell being struck
<noun.event> saved by the bell she heard the distant toll of church bells
(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
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the shape of a bell
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a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
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English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
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United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)
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a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
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the flared opening of a tubular device
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attach a bell to
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Bell \Bell\, n. [AS. belle, fr. bellan to bellow. See {Bellow}.] 1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
Note: Bells have been made of various metals, but the best have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and tin.
{The Liberty Bell}, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words ``Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof.''
2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. ``In a cowslip's bell I lie.'' --Shak.
4. (Arch.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
5. pl. (Naut.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
Note: On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after it has struck ``eight bells'' it is struck once, and at every succeeding half hour the number of strokes is increased by one, till at the end of the four hours, which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times.
{To bear away the bell}, to win the prize at a race where the prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something. --Fuller.
{To bear the bell}, to be the first or leader; -- in allusion to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a team or drove, when wearing a bell.
{To curse by bell}, {book}, {and candle}, a solemn form of excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose being used, and three candles being extinguished with certain ceremonies. --Nares.
{To lose the bell}, to be worsted in a contest. ``In single fight he lost the bell.'' --Fairfax.
{To shake the bells}, to move, give notice, or alarm. --Shak.
Note: Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as, bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed; bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are self-explaining.
{Bell arch} (Arch.), an arch of unusual form, following the curve of an ogee.
{Bell cage}, or {Bell carriage} (Arch.), a timber frame constructed to carry one or more large bells.
{Bell cot} (Arch.), a small or subsidiary construction, frequently corbeled out from the walls of a structure, and used to contain and support one or more bells.
{Bell deck} (Arch.), the floor of a belfry made to serve as a roof to the rooms below.
{Bell founder}, one whose occupation it is to found or cast bells.
{Bell foundry}, or {Bell foundery}, a place where bells are founded or cast.
{Bell gable} (Arch.), a small gable-shaped construction, pierced with one or more openings, and used to contain bells.
{Bell glass}. See {Bell jar}.
{Bell hanger}, a man who hangs or puts up bells.
{Bell pull}, a cord, handle, or knob, connecting with a bell or bell wire, and which will ring the bell when pulled. --Aytoun.
{Bell punch}, a kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.
{Bell ringer}, one who rings a bell or bells, esp. one whose business it is to ring a church bell or chime, or a set of musical bells for public entertainment.
{Bell roof} (Arch.), a roof shaped according to the general lines of a bell.
{Bell rope}, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.
{Bell tent}, a circular conical-topped tent.
{Bell trap}, a kind of bell shaped stench trap.
Bell \Bell\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Belled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Belling}.] To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
2. To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
Bell \Bell\, v. i. To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
Bell \Bell\, v. t. [AS. bellan. See {Bellow}.] To utter by bellowing. [Obs.]
Bell \Bell\, v. i. To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
As loud as belleth wind in hell. --Chaucer.
The wild buck bells from ferny brake. --Sir W. Scott.
Perhaps Columbus, had been right, after all. I took my leave of the finest green refuge on New York City's outskirts: the evening bell was sounding and somebody was driving a car along the lower terrace to remind us that highway morals rule.
"They hear the bell ringing and get up and run." Mr. Gargano, once part of a high-profile group of advertising whiz kids, at 58 years old remains one of the best-known names in the ad business.
An ersatz bell tower topped with a stainless steel cross actually will contain the elevator to the 10 open-air parking floors.
The accident occurred when a quartz window in a bell jar containing tritium shattered.
'I am a church bell,' says the latter.
Within two years, shoppers should be seeing U.S. government-certified organic chickens, tomatoes and bell peppers in the stores.
The imbalances in the orders that were entered by them showed there were many more sales than purchases planned for the closing bell.
At 8 a.m. Saturday navy officials decided to await help from the United States and a specially-designed diving bell was due late Saturday night.
Ninety-one years ago, the town clock was installed and the bell began its hourly chiming.
Weekend rains, coupled with a five-day forecast calling for more in prime corn and soybean growing regions, put traders on the defensive from the opening bell.
Traders said that investors big and small bailed out of stocks from the opening bell onward because of growing recession fears and grim weekend news from the Mideast.
Everyone is delighted." Town crier Peter Moore, dressed in a red tunic and swinging a brass hand bell, opened bottles of champagne and announced the birth to crowds of reporters and members of the public waiting outside the hospital.
Town officials are defending the ringing of the bell, which is housed in the First Congregational Church tower but owned by the town.
Stock prices moved lower on the opening bell amid some profit-taking.
"There was some dollar-selling for position adjustment toward the closing bell" in anticipation of a holiday in the United States next Monday, said Yuichi Tsuchiko, a dealer with Fuji Bank.
Outside, Santo Tomas has that familiar crouching look of the adobe church, the brown paint peeling here and there off the walls, its facade balcony surmounted by twin wooden turrets flanking a pierced bell bracket.
When the last bell rang in the afternoon, he lanked across the student parking lot and got into a gleaming, black 1950 Mercury containing the automotive technology meant for five different cars.
Traders said Japanese and European investors continued to send their buy orders to New York firms throughout the session even though the foreign markets were closed for many hours before the final bell sounded in New York.
Most contracts declined the limit immediately after the opening bell and then stopped trading.
The bell was silenced last May as a result of a civil suit ordering the bell shut down at night.
The bell was silenced last May as a result of a civil suit ordering the bell shut down at night.
As the contest began its second day Thursday, Robin Covey, 12, of Detroit, had barely repeated his word _ "eschatological" _ when the disqualifying bell sounded.
The carillon at the Kirk-in-the-Hills near Detroit has 77 bells, according to Terry Mayer, president of the Metropolitan New York chapter of the American Bell Association International and a designer of bell jewelry.
"We strongly feel the duty to use Hiroshima to sound an alarm bell for the future of all humanity.
Others say pancakes may have been a form of bribe to the bellringer to ring the bell sooner to signal the beginning of the feast day celebrations.
As the clock struck 12, Beijing Mayor Chen Xitong revived an imperial tradition by striking the capital's 500-year-old bronze bell _ China's largest and heaviest _ 12 times.
Talk of Soviet purchases helped drive corn futures up their daily trading limit of 10 cents a bushel at the opening bell, said Dale Gustafson, an analyst with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. in Chicago.
David clanged out a medley of "Camptown Races" and "Good King Wenceslaus." "The boy has a lot of talent, a lot of potential for ringing the bell, Payne said.
Big Ben's hourly bell, one of Britain's best-known sounds, resounded over central London at 8 a.m. today for the last time for up to 12 weeks to allow essential repairs.
On Saturday, rescuers used a diving bell to remove 21 sailors who had been trapped inside the vessel.