Sentence examples for first tone from inspiring English sources

While the "Bi" part of "Bishop" is pronounced with fourth tone, first tone "Bi" means, well, "cunt".

Watch Des perform in Mandarin here "When they hear 'Bi', they don't think about the potential of using the first tone," he says.

It was surely the conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch's idea to pair Strauss's seldom heard "Macbeth," his first tone poem, with Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle," his one-act opera, for the concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra last Tuesday night.

TO make the shows acceptable for broadcast stations, however, HBO acknowledges that it must first tone down some of the language and content that have helped make its programs so distinctive.

When I listen to a melody, for example, I first hear the first tone.

On the other hand, identical syllables such as [wa1]-[wa1] (as in 蛙 wā 'frog' and 挖 wā 'dig', where 1 indicates the first tone in Putonghua) are not the best riming pairs, at least not in formal poetry.

The first tone-setter came just 5 08 into the quarter.

We noted that the difference did not arise from the reduced response for the first tone-pairing, because the effect was largest at 2 min time point (*a), which was before the first stimulus, and there was no difference in the immediate responses after each foot shock.

In a train of four tones, the first tone-evoked response was taken as the deviant tone, and the fourth tone as the standard tone.

Thus, when the first tone-alone trial occurred, individuals were much more alert to assess it, and were more likely to habituate than sensitize.

In addition, as noted in prediction 3, the level of alertness prior to the first tone-alone stimulus was significantly greater for habituater than sensitizer subjects with respect to the GSR, but not significantly greater prior to the first tone-alone stimulus between habituater and sensitizer subjects in any of the other effectors.