0 When birds trill, they sing a series of quickly repeated high notes. -- （鸟）啭鸣
[ + speech ] "I'll be right down!" trilled Daphne. “我马上下来！”达夫妮高声叫道。
1 (the effect achieved by) the fast playing of a note and the note above or below it, one after the other -- 颤动；颤音
2 a series of quickly repeated high notes sung by a bird -- （鸟）啭鸣
3 a sound that is made by very small, quick movements of one of the organs used in speech -- 颤音
As with most trills, uvular trills are often reduced to a single contact, especially between vowels.
The second movement transformed this trill into an eastern arabesque, creating a beautiful tableau of sonority in its delicate evocative instrumentation and harmony.
The erhu is the only instrument which performs the ascending sliding trill live.
Similar trills and oscillations, soft percussion attacks, gleams of brass and string har monics ensue, but all is introductory.
Have not some of our strikes—and not the smallest of them—found their origin in trilling incidents which well come within the province of day-to-day working?
The call is a distinctive "twit", from which derives its name, and the song contains fast trills and twitters.
The value 13, for example, is associated with trills.
The superb starling has a long and loud song consisting of trills and chatters.
