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- a musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers. The modern orchestral harp has an upright frame, with pedals which enable the strings to be retuned to different keys.竖琴。
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- （亦作harp shell 或 harp snail）a marine mollusc which has a large vertically ribbed shell with a wide aperture, found chiefly in the Indo-Pacific竖琴螺。
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- Family Harpidae, class Gastropoda竖琴螺科： 腹足纲。
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- (harp on) talk or write persistently and tediously on a particular topic（就某一话题）喋喋不休地说; （就某一问题）啰里啰唆地写：
guys who are constantly harping on about the war.
喜欢喋喋不休谈论战争的家伙们。
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- archaic play on a harp〈古〉弹竖琴。
词源
Old English hearpe, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch harp and German Harfe.