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play the harp
harp 作名词时指“竖琴”，play the harp 是常见搭配，通常用定冠词 the。
She plays the harp in the school orchestra.
她在学校管弦乐队里演奏竖琴。
竖琴
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
竖琴
a musical instrument with a triangular frame and strings that are plucked with the fingers
She plays the harp in the school orchestra.
她在学校管弦乐队里演奏竖琴。
竖琴,由琴身和弯曲琴颈构成,弦垂直与音板
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
一种弦鸣乐器,具有三角形框架,由音板、支柱和弯曲琴颈构成；琴弦张于琴颈和音箱之间,用手拨奏。
a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
灯罩架,用于安装灯罩的金属框架
The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.
灯罩的一对弯曲竖形支架。
a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade
She learned to play the harp at the age of nine.
她九岁时学会了弹竖琴。
An old harp stood in the corner of the music room.
音乐室的角落里立着一把旧竖琴。
The shop sells both modern and traditional harps.
这家店既卖现代竖琴，也卖传统竖琴。
harp 作名词时指“竖琴”，play the harp 是常见搭配，通常用定冠词 the。
She plays the harp in the school orchestra.
她在学校管弦乐队里演奏竖琴。
harp on about sth 是动词短语，意为“不停地谈论（令人厌烦的事）”，常带贬义；也可以用 harp on sth，后直接接话题。
He kept harping on about his teenage years.
他一直没完没了地讲他的青少年时代。
Not this
She can play harp very well.
Use this
She can play the harp very well.
英语中表示演奏乐器时，乐器名词前必须用定冠词 the，如 play the piano、play the harp；不能说 play harp。
Not this
He keeps harping his past mistakes.
Use this
He keeps harping on his past mistakes.
动词 harp 表示“不停地说”时为不及物动词，须先接介词 on 才能带宾语，即 harp on something；直接说 harping something 不符合英语语法。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
弹竖琴
She learned to play the harp when she was ten.
她十岁时学会了弹竖琴。
竖琴弦
The musician gently plucked the harp strings.
音乐家轻轻拨动竖琴弦。
竖琴演奏者
The harp player gave a moving performance.
竖琴演奏者奉献了一场动人的演出。
竖琴音乐
The room was filled with soft harp music.
房间里弥漫着轻柔的竖琴音乐。
唠叨，反复地说
Stop harping on about your problems.
不要总是唠叨你的问题。
没完没了地谈（某事）；喋喋不休地抱怨（某事）
Stop harping on that mistake — I know I was wrong.
别再唠叨那个错误了——我知道我错了。
老调重弹；反复谈同一个话题
My uncle always harps on the same string whenever he visits.
我叔叔每次来都是老调重弹。
别再提那件事了，夫人；那已经过去了。
He keeps harping on about the mistakes we made.
他不停地唠叨我们犯过的错误。
那架曾让塔拉大厅洒满音乐灵魂的竖琴。
On her birthday, she received a beautiful harp from her grandfather.
生日那天，她收到了祖父送的一架精美的竖琴。
Use harp naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
想象竖琴(harp)的琴弦像竖着的‘H’，弹琴时手指拨弦；harp 又常指‘不停地说’，像反复拨同一根弦。
语域：mixed 常见场景：音乐演奏、正式说明、口语抱怨（harp on） 作名词指竖琴，多用于音乐、乐器或正式语境；作动词且有“不停地说”的含义时，通常用于口语，常搭配 on。
在美国标准读音中，harp 与 sharp /ʃɑrp/、carp /kɑrp/、tarp /tɑrp/ 押韵。注意：warp /wɔrp/ 拼写以 -arp 结尾，但元音不同，不押韵。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.