4.be music to your earsHAPPYif someone’s words are music to your ears, they make you very happy or pleased 〔某人的话〕听起来顺耳,动听
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be music to your ears• It was music to his ears.• Johnson's decision was music to the ears of the Women's Centerdirectors.• Even the deliberatediscordswere music to her ears.• That was music to their ears as they counted up to twenty-two explosions.
5.set/put something to musicAPMALto write music so that the words of a poem, play etc can be sung 为…谱[配]上曲调〔以便能唱〕
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set/put something to music• What were you going to do, set it to music?• She sat at the piano for hours, putting one of her poems to music.• But if you have an extremely subtlestory, how are you going to set it to music?• For Robin, a place to put mind to music.• The Greektragedy "Elektra" was set to music by Richard Strauss.
music business/industry etc• To help the process, Napster has published the emailaddresses of keymusic businessexecs on its site.• Often, smaller maverickpublishers are the talent scouts for the music business.• Actually he hates the music business, and that wholeLondonscene.• Other members of the Ramones have mentioned starting new bands or keeping a hand in the music business.• Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time.• So I got out of the music business for ten years.• Experts on the music businesshold that New York and London are well on their way out as the world music towns.
read music• I could read music at one time but not now.• He could not read music, and had trouble getting jobs.• Born in Dulwich, she was educated at Sussex University where she read music and education in 1968.• I believe children should read music as soon as they are capable of doing so.• Then I discovered he couldn't read music.• I learned to read for drums first and then to sight sing choral music and then I learned to read music in general.• For the next few weeks I thought of little else, and planned to read music there.• If the voice is good enough, the singer will be taught to read music in classes and workshops.
Originmusic
(1200-1300)Old Frenchmusique, from Latin, from Greekmousike“art of the Muses”, from Mousa; → MUSE2