爵士樂:jazz詞匯精講
Every Starbucks' Jazz album just proved my point, really. There are no two words in English language more harmful than "good job".
——Whiplash
我告訴你,星巴克里放的每張爵士專輯都很好的證明了我的觀點(diǎn)。英語里沒有比“干得不錯”這種話更害人的了。
——《爆裂鼓手》
一、關(guān)于jazz,你應(yīng)該知道的用法有
adj.
爵士樂的 relating to jazz
We're watching the live at the Montreal jazz festival.
我們在看蒙特婁爵士音樂節(jié)現(xiàn)場實(shí)況。
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n.
1.爵士樂,爵士舞 [U]?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
Does his mother like jazz?
她母親喜歡爵士樂嗎?
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2.喧鬧 [U] loud sounds
All the jazz disappeared.
所有的喧鬧都消失了。
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3.陳腔濫調(diào),廢話,空話,胡扯 [U] word thats mean nothing
Don't give me that jazz.
別跟我胡扯。
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4.(Jazz)爵士(《變形金剛》中的汽車人,變形為保時(shí)捷935 TURBO方程式賽車。)
v.
1.奏爵士樂,跳爵士舞 [I,T]?to play in the manner of jazz
Can you jazz up classical tunes?
你能把古典樂曲奏成爵士音樂嗎?
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2.使活潑 [T]?to make sth more interesting, exciting or attractive
I jazzed the article up with some articulation and fancy words.
我用一些有力度的說法和獨(dú)特的詞匯把文章激活起來。
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二、下面我們來學(xué)習(xí)一下含有jazz的常見短語
cool jazz
冷漠派爵士樂
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jazz around
v. 游蕩
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jazz up
使巨有爵士樂情調(diào);使活躍,使愉快,刺激
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jazz band
n. 爵士樂隊(duì)
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三、學(xué)會jazz的用法了嗎?來做個填詞游戲吧
Jack is great on cycling and ____.
杰克熱衷于騎自行車和聽爵士音樂。?