1. The speaker had obviously struck a chord with his audience. 讲演者显然已引起了听众的共鸣。
2. This poem has struck a responsive chord in the hearts of its readers. 这首诗引起了读者的共鸣。
3. In himself, too, he knew that it was vibrating at last, that chord hitherto dormant and unsuspected. 在他自己心里,他也知道那根弦终于在颤动了,那根弦一直蛰伏着,不曾被察觉。
4. How many chords are involved in this chord change, and are they changing at a regular or irregular rate? 这次和弦转变一共用了多少和弦,它们的变化率是规则还是不规则的?
5. If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change. 如果某一个和弦持续的时间是两倍或者只有一半,那我们就有了不规则的和声改变——和声改变的不规则比率。