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 jazz music he loved, its syncopations.
  他喜爱爵士乐，喜欢它的切分音。
• My husband is a jazz musician. Enough said.
  我丈夫是位爵士音乐家，透露这一点就够了。
• The sound veers between jazz and countrified blues.
  音乐在爵士乐和乡村布鲁斯乐之间来回转换。
• 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。
• Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave ran a jazz workshop for young artists
  小号手马库斯·贝尔格雷夫为年轻艺术家办了一个爵士乐研习班。
• Ben Tankard wowed the crowd with his jazz.
  本·坦卡德的爵士乐使众人为之叫绝。
• It was my younger brother who introduced me to jazz.
  是我弟弟使我了解了爵士乐。
• American Negroes invented jazz.
  美国黑人发明了爵士乐。
• 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。
• 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。