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 GRE TEM4

Collins.3 / BNC.5759 / COCA.3848

短语动词

jazz up
1. 使更有趣；使更绚丽多彩；使更令人兴奋 2. 使更具流行音乐（或爵士乐）风格

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

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

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

'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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
It was jazz music he loved, its syncopations.
他喜爱爵士乐，喜欢它的切分音。