Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Tonya, can you play the balalaika? 日瓦戈将军:冬妮娅,你会弹三弦琴吗?
The strains of the balalaika and snatches of a soft melancholy song drifted across the chilly night, probably from a young White Russian emigre girl, singing for her living. 一声二声清脆的歌音,带着哀调,从静寂的深夜的冷空气里传到我的耳膜上来。这大约是俄国的飘泊的少女,在那里卖钱的歌唱。
balalaika
[ noun ] a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings <noun.artifact>
balalaika \balalaika\ n. [Russian.] a stringed instrument of Russian origin that has a triangular body and three strings. [WordNet 1.5]
Now I'm playing this bass balalaika and I'm really very happy.
"I joined music school when I was 15 years old," Gorbachev says. "I heard balalaika and I liked very much the sound and I started seriously studying this instrument.