The old man still harps on a bout the death of his wife. 老人仍在反复诉说他妻子去世的事。
Don't keep harping on like that. 别再那样唠唠叨叨的。
harp
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a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
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a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
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a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
Harp \Harp\ (h[aum]rp), n. [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G. harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.] 1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
2. (Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
3. A grain sieve. [Scot.]
{[AE]olian harp}. See under {[AE]olian}.
{Harp seal} (Zo["o]l.), an arctic seal ({Phoca Gr[oe]nlandica}). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also {saddler}, and {saddleback}. The immature ones are called {bluesides}; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur.
{Harp shell} (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus {Harpa}, of several species, found in tropical seas. See {Harpa}.
Harp \Harp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Harped} (h[aum]rpt) p. pr. & vb. n. {Harping}.] [AS. hearpian. See {Harp}, n.] 1. To play on the harp.
I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps. --Rev. xiv. 2.
2. To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon. ``Harpings upon old themes.'' --W. Irving.
Harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was. --Shak.
{To harp on one string}, to dwell upon one subject with disagreeable or wearisome persistence. [Colloq.]
Harp \Harp\, v. t. To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
Thou 'st harped my fear aright. --Shak.
That way, even zero growth would imply continued convergence if the rest of the Community were in recession. 'I don't want to harp on numbers,' he says.
Louis Blues" on her harp during the talent segment of the Miss America pageant (an opera singer from Ohio won), says that there is an elegance to the instrument that especially appeals to women.
"If my opponent continues to harp on this so much I think he'll be making it into an issue when in fact it is not our intention, nor has it ever been our intention, that it be an issue," Daub said.
"I always thought the harp was kind of a gentle instrument.
It was a privilege to be in Jerusalem last week for an important moment in the history of Israel: the completion of the new Supreme Court. Trumpet, drum and harp sounded.
But he displayed characteristics uncommon in the civil service as well: He thrived on controversy, welcomed combat (whether against a noted politician or a notorious criminal), and he could play the media like a harp.
Animated by tingling metal, punctuated by guitar and harp flourishes, and personalised by ruefully lyrical wind and horn, the scoring lacks the sustaining strength of strings.
Skryabin himself, however, might have stopped short of putting harp, celesta and glockenspiel in unison to make his celestial effects.
Zeppo (Ralph Cosham) tap dances with the bellhops; Harpo (Charles Janasz) plays his harp while perched in a large moon in the sky; and Chico (Mitchell Greenberg) plays a full-fledged piano solo, trigger finger and all.
On stage sat two identical orchestras of strings, harp, piano, percussion and tuba.
In return, the theater lobby sells tapes of his newest recording, "Uaithne," featuring Fiona Davidson on the clairschach, a wire-strung harp traditional out here in the Celtic fringe.
It's gritty and hard driving and powered by no-nonsense blowing that says the man with the harp is in charge.
At a Wednesday morning breakfast meeting that was supposed to mark the amicable parting of the two sides, Sony officials continued to harp on the issue, with no apparent effect on Mr. Tisch.
Everybody in advertising knows you aren't supposed to harp on low prices: It turns your product into a commodity and chips away at the image that advertising works so hard to build.