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

• She protested that it wasn't traditional jazz at all, but an unholy row
  她抗议说那根本不是传统爵士乐，而是令人憎恶的噪音。
• 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。
• '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。
• We're thinking of going to a jazz club tonight.
  我们正在考虑今晚去爵士乐俱乐部。
• In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience.
  在英国，爵士乐不再是精英人物的专利，它正吸引着越来越多的听众。
• 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。
• His music of that period fused the rhythms of Jazz with classical forms
  他那个时期的音乐将爵士乐的韵律和古典音乐的形式融合在了一起。
• American Negroes invented jazz.
  美国黑人发明了爵士乐。
• The Festival, now in its fourteenth year, has become a major international jazz event.
  这个艺术节现在进行到第14届，已经成为国际爵士乐的一大盛会。
• He was one of the most influential performers of modern jazz
  他是现代爵士乐最有影响力的表演者之一。