blues
[blu:z]
n.布鲁斯音乐, 忧郁的情绪
名词blue的复数形式
例句与用法:
She called me every now and then to sing the blues about her troubles.
她时常打电话给我对她反遇到的麻烦发牢骚。
The blues was/were first performed by the black people.
布鲁斯音乐最初是由黑人演奏的。
No one sings the blues like she did.
唱布鲁斯歌谁也比不上她。(《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》)
词形变化:
n.
1. 忧郁
2. 布鲁斯(美国南部黑人的爵士音乐及舞步)
3. 美国陆海空军的蓝色制服
plural noun
- (常作 the blues)[treated as sing. or pl.]melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll
布鲁斯音乐(一种感伤音乐,源于美国黑人民间,多以12小节模进形式表现;19世纪末在美国南部乡村形成,后随着黑人移居城市,在20世纪40年代得到更多人的喜爱;由这种城市布鲁斯产生了节奏布鲁斯和摇滚乐)
■[treated as sing.]a piece of such music:
布鲁斯乐曲
a blues in C.
一首C调布鲁斯乐曲。 - (the blues)(informal)feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression
(非正式)忧郁,悲伤,沮丧
she's got the blues.
她变得忧郁了。
bluesy
adjective
- (in sense 1)
- mid 18th cent. (in sense 2): elliptically from blue devils 'depression or delirium tremens'
blues
名词 blues:
a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
a state of depression
同义词:blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours
名词 blue:
blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
blue clothing
同义词:blue
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
同义词:blue
the sky as viewed during daylight
同义词:blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder
used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
同义词:amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal
any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
同义词:blue
动词 blue:
turn blue
同义词:blue
blues
■Blue jay is a type of noisy European bird with brightly colored feathers.
樫鸟是一种爱叫的欧洲鸟,有鲜艳的羽毛。
■The blue eyes were reddened and sullen with weeping.
一对碧眼哭得发红,没了光辉。
■A safe investment is blue chips or, better still, gilt-edged securities.
一种可靠的投资是买值钱而热门的股票,或者更可靠的一种买安全的金边证券。
■I could hardly see her through a blue haze of smoke.
一股蓝色的烟雾使我几乎看不见她。
■After work colourful clothes replace the blue tunics.
下班之后,蓝制服都换成了色彩鲜艳的衣服。
■Still, say experts, the blues should be addressed.
专家们说,针对假日忧伤人们还是应该采取措施。
■I don't know why, but I have had the blues all day.
也不知是什么原因,我今天整天都打不起精神来。
■I don't know why,but I have the blues all day.
也不知道是什么原因,我今天整天都打不起精神来。
■People have been playing the blues for many years.
人们已经演奏布鲁斯音乐很多年了。
■They used to call what I've got the blues.
人们说我患了忧郁症。
■It's a fine day today, and the sky is blue.
今天天气很好,天空晴朗无云。
■The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.
今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
■Through a chink she could see a bit of blue sky.
从缝隙中他可以看到一线蓝天。
■He fell down the stairs and was all black and blue.
他从楼梯跌下而青一块紫一块了。
■The shares of their company are blue chip.
他们公司的值钱而又红利稳。
■They play the blues like nobody's business.
他们演奏蓝调技巧无人能敌。
■Theirs are blue.
他们的是蓝色的。
■He assures to us that we will get the blue print in time.
他向我们保证我们将及时得到蓝图。
■He was in the blues on account of his failure in business.
他因事业失败而意志消沉。
■He felt blue over his dismissal.
他因被解雇而情绪低落。
■He exchanged the blue jumper for a red one.
他把蓝毛衣换成了红的。
■The news of his death came as a bolt from the blue.
他死亡的消息好似晴天霹雳。
■He lined the paper with a blue pencil.
他用蓝铅笔在纸上划了线。
■His eyes aren't quite as blue as they look in the film.
他的眼睛不像在电影 见到的那么蓝。
■He dresses in a blue serge suit.
他穿着兰色的毛哔叽套服。
■He was attired in blue.
他穿着蓝色衣服。
■He thought the noise in the empty room was a ghost moving about and he was in a blue funk when I saw him.
他认为空房里的响声是鬼魂在走来走去。我见到他时他万分惊恐。
■He wore his collar and orders, and his blue ribbon as well.
他身上挂满了领章、各种宝星勋章,还挂着他的蓝绶带。
■He was over six feet tall, with piercing blue eyes.
他身高超过六英尺,长着一双锐利的蓝眼睛。
■He used to like the blues very much.
他过去非常喜爱布鲁斯乐曲。
■He was black and blue all over.
他遍体鳞伤。
■He can write me letters till he's blue in the face, I'm not going to reply.
任他没完没了地给我写信,我就是不回信。
■Why do you keep on singing the blues?
你为何总是抱怨个不停?
■You know Travelin' Blues, right?
你会旅行蓝调,对吗?
■Do you think the blue car is only do30?
你看这辆蓝车只开30英里的时速吗?
■If we had been allowed to sit idle, we should all have fallen in she blues.
假使当初让我们虚度光阴的话; 我们都会感到伤心的。
■The indigo plant or the blue dye obtained from it.
假蓝靛靛蓝植物或从这种植物中提取的蓝色染料
■The soldiers looked up and saw a tall young man with blue eyes, a friendly face, strong arms and broad shoulders.
兵们抬头一看,看到一个高个子蓝眼睛的年轻人,长着一张和善的脸庞,非常结实的胳臂和宽阔的肩膀。
■Blues hijack United's Torres swoop?
切尔西半路截走托雷斯??
■Just the thought of travelling by air puts me in a blue funk.
只要一想起坐飞机旅行就使我极为恐惧。
■Jimmy doesn't know colors yet; he mixes up purple with blue.
吉米还不能分辨颜色,他把紫色和蓝色搅混了。
■No one sings the blues like she did.
唱布鲁斯歌谁也比不上她。(《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》)
■Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.
啊,我爱死了那些节奏与布鲁斯。
■Congress has declared 2003 the @Year of the Blues.
国会宣布2003年是“布鲁斯年”。
■The script was a bit racy until the producer wielded his blue pencil.
在制片人挥动他那蓝色铅笔删改前,剧本有一些逃逗性。
■The rising sun is orient in the blue sky.
在蓝天里初升太阳光辉夺目。
■That jumper sets off the blue of her eyes.
在这件毛衣衬托下,她眼睛的蓝色显得更漂亮了。
■On this chart, the erector is marked in blue.
在这张图上竖立肌以蓝色标志。
■Goodness, you look blue! Come in by the fire and get warm.
天啊,你都冻得发紫了!进来在火边暖暖身子。
■The sky slowly changed from blue to red.
天空慢慢由蓝色变为红色。