| 单词 | torch song |
| 释义 | > as lemmastorch song torch song n. originally U.S. a popular song on the subject of unrequited love; a sad sentimental or romantic song. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > love-song ronc1225 love songa1350 love-layc1450 Liebestod1889 torch song1927 1927 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 132/3 ‘Sing a torch song’ is commonly used in Broadway late~places as a request for a ballad in commemoration of the lonesome state. Tommy Lyman is said to have created the slang and he announced one night: ‘My famous torch song: “Come To Me, My Melancholy Baby”.’ 1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads x. 256 I was grateful for the darkness and the torch songs. 1977 Listener 13 Oct. 481/2 The songs are pleasant parodies of Nashville, of torch songs and even of grand opera. < as lemmas |
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