chiming 谐音
Chime \Chime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chimed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Chiming}.] [See {Chime}, n.]
1. To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
2. To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to
correspond; to fall in with.
Everything chimed in with such a humor. --W. irving.
3. To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed
by in or in with. [Colloq.]
4. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in
rhyming. --Cowley
- Ninety-one years ago, the town clock was installed and the bell began its hourly chiming.
- Seven chiming bells in the passageway, signifying 3:30, abruptly dispelled his despondency.
- A century-old clock in this quintessential New England town has pitted old-timers fond of its hourly chiming against a pair of newcomers who say the clamor is taking a toll on their sleep.
- The distinguished visiting professor with the patch over his right eye tugs at a tweed sleeve and bends an ear to his chiming wristwatch.
- After selectmen refused to stop the chiming, the couple sued the town.
- The ruling was met with relief by a pair of newcomers living next door to the bell and with dismay by townsfolk who had argued the chiming was a treasured part of the New England character of the 320-year-old farm community.
- Once the Ways and Means Committee folk get to puttering around, with all the rest of Congress chiming in, you never know what the repair job will look like.