【alto】 - A-level备考词汇

alto

UK:  ['æltəʊ]

US:  ['æltoʊ]

复数：altos  

n.

1.唱男声最高音[中高音,女低音]的歌手

2.高地

3.高丘陵

4.中提琴

5.【音乐】男声最高音;中高音,女低音

1 . Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto.
周二早晨，他给我打电话让我快点去帕洛奥托。

2 . Now in his early fifties, Jobs live quietly privately, with his wife and four kids in a large, unostentatious house in suburban Palo Alto.
他现在五十来岁了，乔布斯活的非常安静且隐秘，他与他的妻儿住在帕洛阿尔托郊区的一所普通的房子中。

3 . Jobs' family said he died peacefully on Wednesday, surrounded by his loved ones at his home in Palo Alto, California.
乔布斯的家人说，他于星期三在加利福尼亚州帕洛阿尔托的家中平静地去世，亲人们守护在他的身边。

4 . The Xerox Alto had a strange device called a mouse, that you could use to move a cursor around the screen.
施乐Alto有一个奇怪的装置叫鼠标，你可以用它控制屏幕上的光标。

5 . I've been trying Google Wallet in Washington, D. C. , and Palo Alto, Calif. , and I find it delightfully easy to use.
我在华盛顿特区和加州的帕洛阿尔托测试了谷歌钱包，发现它用起来非常方便，令人身心愉快。