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blues

/blooz/US // bluz //UK // (bluːz) //

布鲁斯,蓝调,蓝光,蓝军

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the blues, depressed spirits; despondency; melancholy: This rainy spell is giving me the blues.
    • : Jazz. a song, originating with African Americans, that is marked by the frequent occurrence of blue notes, and that takes the basic form, customarily improvised upon in performance, of a 12-bar chorus consisting of a 3-line stanza with the second line repeating the first.the genre constituting such songs.

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Examples

  • One of my favorite blues records was recorded in 1962 by Williams, a Louisianan guitarist who spent years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary before getting released.

  • I’ll need money and clothes, but not the gorgeous red blues guitar hanging on the wall.

  • After kicking his heroin habit temporarily for the first time, he soon emerged with a 10-minute, driving blues number that he reportedly jotted down on toilet paper during the session.

  • Hill was a seasoned blues musician by the time he joined ZZ Top, having played bass with performers including Freddie King and Lightnin’ Hopkins.

  • Ragtime, blues, country, jazz, soul, and rock and roll were all pioneered or inspired by black artists.

  • Artists like Mick Jagger and Van Morrison obsessively revered and imitated African-American blues and rock musicians.

  • You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke.

  • "Goin' Down Slow" Cocker and Elton John duetted on this blues cover on French music show Trafic Musique in 2005.

  • English blues and rock singer Joe Cocker has died at age 70.

  • She dressed in simple lines and quiet tones, dark blues and black, with only a broad lace collar and cuffs in neat relief.

  • The woods of the Undercliff sank softly to the blues and purple, the silver streaks and gorgeous shadows of the sea floor.

  • I shall hear of his having the blues and nervous attacks next, I suppose.

  • She made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window.

  • I like the Wall of Troy design you are using, and the blues and gray will be a good combination.

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