a cater
cater 作可数名词，指一种九钟鸣奏法（四对钟加一个低音钟），首次提及时常用不定冠词 a。
The band rang a cater on Sunday morning.
乐队在周日早晨鸣奏了一种九钟鸣奏法。
九钟鸣奏法；四对钟加一个低音钟的打法
caters — plural of cater
一种敲响九个钟的方式,四对加一个低音钟。
a bell-ringing method that uses nine bells, rung as four pairs plus a ninth tenor bell
钟乐领域的专业术语，日常英语中很少使用。
一种敲响九个钟的方式,四对加一个低音钟。
A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
The village ringers rang a cater at the Sunday service, with nine bells sounding in four pairs.
村里的敲钟人在周日礼拜上敲了一曲九钟鸣奏法,九口钟分成四对鸣响。
用法提示：cater 在此作名词,指九口钟分成四对、另加一个低音钟的敲奏方式。
Our band practised a cater for weeks before we could keep the four pairs steady.
我们乐队练习九钟鸣奏法练了好几个星期,才能让四对钟稳定地交替鸣响。
用法提示：cater 作名词,表示四对钟加一个低音钟的这种鸣奏法。
A cater needs nine bells, so few small towers can manage one.
九钟鸣奏法需要九口钟,所以很少有小型钟楼能敲得出来。
用法提示：cater 作可数名词,指需要九口钟才能完成的这种鸣奏方式。
cater 作可数名词，指一种九钟鸣奏法（四对钟加一个低音钟），首次提及时常用不定冠词 a。
The band rang a cater on Sunday morning.
乐队在周日早晨鸣奏了一种九钟鸣奏法。
特指已提到或已知的那种鸣奏法时，用定冠词 the。
The cater was rung in four pairs with a tenor bell.
这种九钟鸣奏法以四对钟加一个低音钟的方式鸣奏。
复数为 caters，用来表示多种不同的鸣奏法。
The ringers know several different caters.
这些敲钟人掌握好几种不同的九钟鸣奏法。
grammar · medium
易错句子The ringers learned three different cater last year.
正确表达The ringers learned three different caters last year.
cater 在这里是可数名词，前面有基数词 three 表示不止一种时，必须用复数形式 caters。汉语名词通常不靠词尾变化表示复数，学习者容易漏掉 -s，把可数名词当成不变形使用。
grammar · medium
易错句子The team catered the bells in four pairs with a tenor last Sunday.
正确表达The team rang a cater in four pairs with a tenor last Sunday.
本义中 cater 是名词，指一种九钟鸣奏法，不能直接当动词表示“按这种打法敲钟”。表示敲钟要用动词 ring，把 cater 作为名词宾语，因此改为 rang a cater。
鸣奏九钟法
The ringers rang caters for nearly an hour.
敲钟人鸣奏了近一个小时的九钟法。
一整套九钟鸣奏
The band rang a peal of caters on Saturday.
乐队在周六鸣奏了一整套九钟法。
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