調字的意思

补偿可由调税实现。

Compensation could be made by adjustments to taxation.

你的吹风机太热了。能麻烦请你调一下吗？

Your hairdryer is too hot. Would you adjust it, please?

我们也许要将这个数字往上调一调。

We may have to revise this figure upwards.

我做好了。没有，我得调些酱料。

I've finished. Ish. I still need to make the sauce.

给，这是你的咖啡，按你口味调的。

Here's your coffee, just the way you like it.

有人走过，唱着一首不成调的歌。

Someone walked by, singing a tuneless song.

这首歌起调太低，不适合我的嗓音。

The song was pitched too low for my voice.

一位邻居要求调小音乐,聚会便散了。

A neighbour asked for the music to be turned down and the party broke up.

一把中提琴独奏出孤寂婉约的升F调。

A solitary viola plucks a lonely, soft F sharp.

戈弗雷的嗓音变了调,然后停了下来。

Godfrey's voice broke, and halted.

我爸爸从牙缝里乱吹口哨，曲不成调。

My dad whistled tunelessly through his teeth.

丙烯颜料可用来创作单一色调的大幅图块。

Acrylic paints can be used to create large, flat blocks of colour.

把灯光调暗–在刺眼的灯光下躺着不舒服。

Dim the lighting – it is unpleasant to lie with a bright light shining in your eyes.

她把音量调大了。

She turned the volume up.

我把音量调大了。

I turned the volume up.

你知道，瑞士不仅仅只有牛铃声和约德尔调歌声。

Switzerland isn't all cow bells and yodeling, you know.

他们被迫听白噪音，那种类似于调电台时听到的静电噪音。

They were made to listen to white noise, such as static of the sort you might pick up between radio stations.

随着他们愈往南行，杰克拖腔拉调的南方口音就愈发明显了。

Jack's southern drawl had become more pronounced as they'd travelled southward.

梅丽莎狂饮杜松子酒和奎宁水调的饮品，就像喝柠檬水一样。

Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade.

你要是还未学会在山间小屋的下午茶舞会上用约德尔调歌唱的话，那你就白活了！

You haven't lived till you've learned how to yodel at a tea dance in a mountain hut!

她料想他会要一杯苏格兰威士忌，所以当他请她调一杯马丁尼时，她有点不知所措。

She expected him to ask for a scotch and was rather nonplussed when he asked her to mix him a martini.

我把灯调亮，然后，你自己看吧。

I will turn up the light, and then you can see for yourself.

你们吃的时候难道尝不出来著名厨师马里奥调的面条酱汁吗？

Can't you taste the famous cook Mario's noodle sauce as you eat?

如果你必须在外出时听一些东西，只使用一个耳机或把音量调小。

If you have to listen to something when you're out, use only one earphone or play it at a very low volume.

她把灯调亮，彼得看清了。

She turned up the light, and Peter saw.

“别把灯调亮。”他喊道。

"Don't turn up the light," he cried.

我会将它们调零。

I will zero them.

我正在调工作。

I'm changing my job.

外面太吵了，我只能将录音机调大声点来掩盖那些噪音。

It's so noisy outside that I can only turn up the radio to drown the noise out.

把它调小来调节气氛，或者把它调大来开始跳舞！像鱼一样游泳是什么感觉？

Turn it down to set the mood, or turn it up to start the dancing! What's it like to swim like a fish?