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　

高考CET4考研GRETEM4

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

• His music fused the rhythms of jazz with classical forms
  他的音乐把爵士乐的节奏和古典乐的形式结合在了一起。
• Ben Tankard wowed the crowd with his jazz.
  本·坦卡德的爵士乐使众人为之叫绝。
• 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。
• 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。
• '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。
• For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm blues, rock roll and country music
  对于外行人来说，西部摇摆是爵士乐、节奏布鲁斯、摇滚乐和乡村音乐的融合。
• It was my younger brother who introduced me to jazz.
  是我弟弟使我了解了爵士乐。
• Researchers have ploughed through 16,000 different pieces of classical, rock and jazz music
  研究者好不容易完成了对1.6万首不同的古典、摇滚和爵士乐曲的研究。
• 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。