instrument 是什么意思？ 下面有几种常见的解释：

读音：英 [ˈɪnstrəmənt]  美 [ˈɪnstrəmənt] 

中文翻译：

n.仪器； 手段，工具； 乐器； 法律文件

vt.用仪器装备； 为演奏谱曲； 向…提交文书；

用法及例句：

1.This instrument tests the patient's heart rate

这台测试病人的心率。

2.An instrument is a tool or device that is used to do a particular task, especially a scientific task.

仪器是用来完成特定任务的工具或装置，尤其是科学测试。

权威例句：

1. All surgical instruments must be sterilized before use. 

所有的外科手术器械在使用之前,必须消毒。

2. The pilot studied his instruments anxiously. 

飞行员焦虑地把他的各种仪器仔细查看了一番。

3. He did not himself kill the prisoner; the jailer was his instrument in the murder. 

他没有亲手杀死犯人,监狱看守在这起凶杀案中充当了他的工具。

4. He can play piano, violin and several other instruments. 

他会演奏钢琴、小提琴及其他几种乐器。

5. The President signed the instrument of abdication.

总统签署了退位的文告。

6. The law is not the best instrument for dealing with family matters. 

法律并不是处理家庭问题的Z佳方法。 

7.It was the instrument of government as well as the supreme authority over the gens, the tribe, and the confederacy.  

它是处理政治事物的机构，又是统驭氏族，部落和部落联盟的Z高权力机构。 

 8.Other instruments include celeriac bongos, eggplant cymbals and pumpkin drums  

其他乐器还有块根芹手鼓、茄钹和南瓜鼓。 

9.A woodwind instrument of the oboe family,with a pitch between that of an English horn and a bassoon.  

黑克尔管属于双簧管家族的一种木制管乐器，其音高位于英国号和巴松管之间 

10.(F) other negotiable instruments and financial assets, including bullion  

(F)其他可转让票据和金融资产，包括金银条块。 

11.In medical and other applications of ultrasonics, a variety of electronic instrumentation is used  超声波在医学和其它应用中，要使用许多电子仪器设备。 

12.Bombardon:a brass instrument resembling a tuba but with a lower pitch; a bass or contrabass tuba.  低音大号:一种与大号相似却音调较低的铜管乐器;低音或Z低音大号。 

13.A percussion instrument consisting of a piece of metal in the shape of a triangle open at one angle.  

三角铁一种打击乐器，由一块三角形的金属构成，在三角形的一个角开口 

14.For the measurement of drafting forces of staple the shirley draftometer or a similar instrument is used  

至于测量短纤维的牵伸力，可以应用雪莱牵伸仪或其它类似仪器。 

15.A tubular instrument equipped with a light and used to examine the interior of the urinary bladder and ureter.  

膀胱镜装有灯的管状仪器，用来检查膀胱内部和输尿管 

16.We are surprised to find50sets of the medical instrument terribly rusty.  

我们吃惊地发现有50套YL器械锈损得很严重。 

17.The instruments used are spectroscopes (for direct visual observation) or spectrographs (for recording spectra).  

所用的仪器是分光镜(用于直接观察)和摄谱仪(用于记录光谱)。 

18.A test device for flack flowing systems based on virtual instrument technology is developed.  

研制基于虚拟仪器技术的高炮随动系统性能检测装置。 

19.Most schools supply paper, pencils, erasers, calculators, computers, art supplies and musical instruments  

大多数学校还提供纸张、铅笔、橡皮、计算器、计算机、美术课用具和乐器。 

20.Make(a hole)in sth by pushing one's finger, a sharp instrument,etc through it  

(用手指、尖物等)在某物上扎(洞) 

21.Use forged, altered, or invalid negotiable instruments or other false certificates of property rights as guaranties  

以伪造、变造、作废的票据或者其他虚假的产权证明作担保的 

22.There are also weapons and musical instruments such as the nao or big cymbal, the ling or bell, the drum and chimes.  

乐器类有铙、铃、仿木器的鼓、编钟等，还有兵器、车马器等 

23.A four - stringed instrument of the violin family,pitched lower than the viola but higher than the double bass.  

大提琴一种提琴类四弦乐器，音调比中提琴低但比低音提琴高 

24.The instrument can also double as an electronic control for a full-size music synthesizer  

它可以兼作一个全套电子音乐合成器的电子控制部分。 

25.A brass wind instrument similar to the tuba but having a somewhat higher pitch and a mellower sound.  

上低音大号，次中音号一种类似于大号的铜管乐器，但具有较高的音度和柔美的声音 

26.A legend says that the lusheng (a reed-pipe wind instrument) of the Miao ethnic group was made from the shape of a duck.  

苗族的芦笙，有一种传说是照着鸭子的模样做的。 

27.Either of the two principal stops on a pipe organ that form the tonal basis for the entire scale of the instrument.  

主音枪风琴上包括乐器全音域的两个主音栓之一 

综合： instrument 在大多数的意思是指“仪器”之意, instrument 作为“仪器”的英文单词，是表达Z准确的，也是普遍大众能接受的。

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