英语词汇“blues”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

blues

/bluːz

plural noun

1 (often the blues) [treated as singular or plural] 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: blues has always had a strong following in Australia [as modifier]: a blues singer...

People never know if my music is jazz or blues or folk or pop, but I don't know how to put myself into a category.
What emerges from this mixture is a very American sound that mixes jazz, country and western, rock, popular song, folk, and the blues.
That progressed from the blues into folk and gospel music and things like that.

1.1 [treated as singular] A piece of blues music: a blues in C...

Each book contains ballads, blues, Latin pieces and rags.
I'm going to do a Blues and then I get into a Ballad and then...?
‘I love her because she would sing all over the song, rather than just do it straight, and she could sing a standard in a gritty gospel style then do a blues and just kill everyone in the room.’

2 (the blues) informal Feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression: she’s got the blues...

You say you've got the blues in your alligator shoes.
Your bud's got the blues: you have a bud who's just not herself lately?
He was basically a rich kid coming up, but he got the blues down deep in his own way.

Synonyms

depression, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, misery, sorrow, gloominess, gloom, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, glumness, moroseness, dismalness, despair;

the doldrums

informal the dumps

Origin

Mid 18th century (in sense 2): elliptically from blue devils 'depression or delirium tremens'.

单词	blues
释义	blues /bluːz / plural noun 1 (often the blues) [treated as singular or plural] 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: blues has always had a strong following in Australia [as modifier]: a blues singer... People never know if my music is jazz or blues or folk or pop, but I don't know how to put myself into a category. What emerges from this mixture is a very American sound that mixes jazz, country and western, rock, popular song, folk, and the blues. That progressed from the blues into folk and gospel music and things like that. 1.1 [treated as singular] A piece of blues music: a blues in C... Each book contains ballads, blues, Latin pieces and rags. I'm going to do a Blues and then I get into a Ballad and then...? ‘I love her because she would sing all over the song, rather than just do it straight, and she could sing a standard in a gritty gospel style then do a blues and just kill everyone in the room.’ 2 (the blues) informal Feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression: she’s got the blues... You say you've got the blues in your alligator shoes. Your bud's got the blues: you have a bud who's just not herself lately? He was basically a rich kid coming up, but he got the blues down deep in his own way. Synonyms depression, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, misery, sorrow, gloominess, gloom, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, glumness, moroseness, dismalness, despair; the doldrums informal the dumps Origin Mid 18th century (in sense 2): elliptically from blue devils 'depression or delirium tremens'. Rhymes abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse
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