英语单词 | medley |
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英美音标 | 英 ['medli] 美 ['medli] |
中文释义 | n.混杂;[音]混成曲 adj.混杂的 |
英语例句 | (1) This always provokes a medley of cheers and boos. (2) He played a medley of Beatles songs. (3) A medley of songs brought the concert to a close. (4) Today's sports meeting doesn't seem to include medley relay swimming. |
中文例句 | (1) 这总是激起一阵欢呼声和讥笑声。 (2) 他演奏一首披头士的混成曲。 (3) 演奏会以一段名曲集锦作为结束。 (4) 现在的运动会好象还没有混合接力泳这个比赛项目。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you can't decide which of three songs to play, why not play a medley? A medley is one piece of music, made up of passages from other songs. |
vocabulary扩展 | Medley comes from the Old French word medlee which meant — eek! — hand-to-hand combat. There are times, like when watching the Academy Awards, that a really long medley accompanied by, say, mimes, might make you want to engage in battle, but a better way to remember this word is that it is related to the word, meddle, which means to get mixed up in someone's business. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]集成曲;集锦;音乐串烧 In music, a medley is a collection of different tunes or songs that are played one after the other as a single piece of music. [oft N
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]混合泳 In sport, a medley is a swimming race in which the four main strokes are used one after the other. [oft supp N]
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]杂烩;什锦;混合物 A medley of different foods or other things is a mixture of them. [usu N
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