爵士樂：jazz詞彙精講

Every Starbucks' Jazz album just proved my point, really. There are no two words in English language more harmful than "good job".

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——Whiplash

我告訴你，星巴克裏放的每張爵士專輯都很好的證明了我的觀點。英語裏沒有比“幹得不錯”這種話更害人的了。

——《爆裂鼓手》

一、關於jazz，你應該知道的用法有

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現場實況。

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？

2.喧鬧 [U] loud sounds

All the jazz disappeared.

所有的喧鬧都消失了。

3.陳腔濫調，廢話，空話，胡扯 [U] word thats mean nothing

Don't give me that jazz.

別跟我胡扯。

4.（Jazz）爵士（《變形金剛》中的汽車人，變形爲保時捷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？

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特的詞彙把文章激活起來。

二、下面我們來學習一下含有jazz的常見短語

cool jazz

冷漠派爵士樂

jazz around

v. 遊蕩

jazz up

使巨有爵士樂情調;使活躍,使愉快,刺激

jazz band

n. 爵士樂隊

三、學會jazz的用法了嗎？來做個填詞遊戲吧

Jack is great on cycling and ____.
傑克熱衷於騎自行車和聽爵士音樂。