The oars were silver,/Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made the/Water which they beat to follow faster/As amorous of their strokes. ……银色的船桨,随着笛声拍节在水中摇划,击起了层层水波,痴情地紧追不舍。
Next the melody is taken up by flutes. 这主调接着由长笛合奏。
Someone is preparing the tea for you, Water jog is singing a song, Friends will come just fluting heref or you! 有人正为你准备茶,水壶正唱一支歌,朋友将为你而来,为你吹笛子!
fluting
[ noun ] a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) <noun.artifact>
Fluting \Flut"ing\, n. Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
{Fluting iron}, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also {Italian iron}, or {gaufering iron}. --Knight.
{Fluting lathe}, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.
Flute \Flute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fluted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fluting}.] 1. To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
Knaves are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. --Tennyson.
The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee. --Emerson.
2. To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
The influence of Asian export art ranges from pavilions and pagodas depicted in ceramics and wallpapers to the fluting on teapots made by American silversmith Paul Revere.