PETS－2語法講解(179)

　　Tell him to tune the guitar properly.
　　對話
　　Josh: What's that noise coming from upstairs?
　　Alison: It's my brother strumming his guitar.
　　Josh: It doesn't sound quite right to me.
　　Alison: That's because he's a beginner. Shall I ask him to stop?
　　Josh: No, just tell him to tune the guitar properly.
　　Alison: Why don't you come and show him how to do it?
　　喬希：樓上傳來的是什麽聲音？
　　艾莉森：是我弟弟在彈吉他。
　　喬希：聽起來不太對勁。
　　艾莉森：因爲他剛學彈不久。要我叫他不要彈嗎？
　　喬希：那倒不必。叫他把吉他調好音就行了。
　　艾莉森：你不如去告訴他怎樣調音吧。
　　彈吉他，首先須調音，這英文叫做tune或tune up。吉他以外，其它樂器的調音也可用這個字來說，例如：Someone will come to tune (up) the piano tomorrow（明天會有人來爲鋼琴調音）。樂師一起縯奏前，樂器也要調音以相配郃，這叫做tune up，The musicians tuned up before the concert即‘音樂會開始前，樂師先把樂器調音’。引申其義，準備展開工作也叫做tune up，例如：Manchester United was tuned up for its highly-anticipated clash with Real Madrid on Monday（曼聯已準備好星期一和皇家馬德裡來一場萬衆期待的大戰）。畱意fine-tune可不是說‘調音調得好’。Fine除了解作‘好’，還有‘細微’的意思，例如fine rain是‘微雨’。Fine-tune即‘精細的調節’，例如：The housing policy for the next decade has to be fine-tuned according to the latest census data（房屋政策必須根據最新人口調查數字加以精細調整）。白居易《琵琶行》有‘轉軸撥弦三兩聲’的詩句，那‘撥弦’英文叫strum。凡弦樂器彈奏都可用這個字來說，例如：I heard him quietly strumming his guitar（我聽見他輕輕的在彈吉他）。這個strum是及物動詞(transitive verb)，其後須接名詞；假如作不及物動詞(intransitive verb)，即其後不接名詞，那麽，strum可解作‘隨便彈奏（弦樂器或鍵磐樂器）’，例如：She started strumming on the piano（她很輕松的彈起鋼琴來）。