单词 | blues |
释义 | blues (blz) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the. 2. A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: "The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation" (B.B. King). [Short for blue devils, a feeling of depression.] bluesman n. bluesy adj. |
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