The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue fires, in the light of which danced the HULA dancers to the barbaric love-calls of the singers, who chanted to tinkling UKULELES and rumbling tom-toms.

火光里人们跳着呼啦舞。 为他们奏乐的歌手们弹奏着叮叮当当的尤克里里琴，擂着轰隆作响的大鼓，高唱着野蛮的爱情歌曲。

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In 1989, Roach described the drum kit as an American invention that combines cymbals from the Middle East, tom-toms from Africa and snares from Europe.

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When the tom-toms picked up again in the finale, I mentally checked out: the gesture had been made too many times before, not just in the past three decades but in the past thirty minutes.

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For almost as long as there have been power lists, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise "The Toms" have jockeyed for first position, occasionally letting Mel Gibson sneak up on the rail, just to keep things interesting.

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