jazz

英 [dʒæz]

美 [dʒæz]

n.  爵士乐
v.  奏爵士乐; 使活泼

现在分词：jazzing　过去式：jazzed　第三人称单数：jazzes　过去分词：jazzed　

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Collins.3 / BNC.5759 / COCA.3848

短语动词

短语用例

jazz sth↔up

• 使某事更有趣；使某事更令人兴奋；使某事更有吸引力
  to make sth more interesting, exciting or attractive
  1. a jazz band/club
     爵士乐队 / 夜总会
  2. traditional/modern jazz
     传统 / 现代爵士乐
  3. jazz musicians
     爵士乐师
• 使一段音乐听起来更现代化；使更具有流行音乐（或爵士乐）的风格
  to make a piece of music sound more modern, or more like popular music or jazz

习惯用语

n.

and all that jazz
• 以及诸如此类的东西（或事情）
  and things like that
• How's it going? You know─love, life and all that jazz.
  怎么样啊？你知道——说的就是爱情、生活以及诸如此类的事情嘛。

牛津词典

noun

• 爵士乐
  a type of music with strong rhythms, in which the players often improvise (= make up the music as they are playing) , originally created by African American musicians
  1. a jazz band/club
     爵士乐队 / 夜总会
  2. traditional/modern jazz
     传统 / 现代爵士乐
  3. jazz musicians
     爵士乐师

verb

verb

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 爵士乐
  Jazzis a style of music that was invented by African American musicians in the early part of the twentieth century. Jazz music has very strong rhythms and often involves improvisation.
  1. The pub has live jazz on Sundays.
     那家酒馆每周日都有现场爵士乐演奏。
  2. ...the great American jazz pianist George Shearing.
     美国伟大的爵士乐钢琴演奏家乔治·希林

英英释义

noun

• a style of dance music popular in the 1920s
• a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
  1. that's a lot of wind
  2. don't give me any of that jazz
  Synonym:windmalarkeymalarkyidle wordsnothingness

verb

• have sexual intercourse with
  1. This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  2. Adam knew Eve
  3. Were you ever intimate with this man?
  Synonym:sleep togetherroll in the haylovemake outmake lovesleep withget laidhave sexknowdo itbe intimatehave intercoursehave it awayhave it offscrewfuckeffhumplie withbedhave a go at itbangget it onbonk
• play something in the style of jazz

双语例句

• It was my younger brother who introduced me to jazz.
  是我弟弟使我了解了爵士乐。
• It was jazz music he loved, its syncopations.
  他喜爱爵士乐，喜欢它的切分音。
• 'Blow your head!' is still packing them in at Camden's Jazz Caf é every Friday night.
  每个星期五晚上，“爆头”乐队在卡姆登爵士咖啡馆仍然人气十足。
• Marsalis has a formidable reputation in both jazz and classical music
  马萨利斯在爵士乐和古典音乐领域都有极高的声望。
• When Miles Davis died, jazz was robbed of its most distinctive voice
  随着迈尔斯·戴维斯的去世，爵士乐界失去了其最与众不同的声音。
• Cubism had affinities with the new European interest in jazz.
  主体派和欧洲新近的爵士音乐热有密切关系。
• At that time, his virtuosity on the trumpet had no parallel in jazz.
  那时，他高超的小号吹奏技巧在爵士乐界无人能比。
• This produces an effect called syncopation& another characteristic of jazz.
  这便产生了切分音的效果。这种切分音是爵士音乐的另一个特征。
• His latest album release is a compilation of his jazz works over the past decade.
  最近发行的专辑是他过去10年来的爵士作品合集。
• She's never had any drug problems or done anything to give jazz a bad name.
  她从没有吸过毒，也没做过任何有损爵士乐名声的事。