Dance
[dɑːns] or [dæns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an artistic form of nonverbal communication.
(noun.) a party for social dancing.
(noun.) a party of people assembled for dancing.
(verb.) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; 'My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio'.
(verb.) move in a graceful and rhythmical way; 'The young girl danced into the room'.
(verb.) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways; 'Dancing flames'; 'The children danced with joy'.
霍雷肖整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
(v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
(v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
(v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
(v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
约翰娜編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Frisk, caper, hop about.
v. a. Dandle, toss up and down.
整理:奥蒂斯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to move with measured steps to music: to spring.—v.t. to make to dance or jump.—n. the movement of one or more persons with measured steps to music: the tune to which dancing is performed.—ns. Dance′-mū′sic music specially arranged for accompanying dancing; Danc′er one who practises dancing; Danc′ing the act or art of moving in the dance; Danc′ing-girl a professional dancer; Danc′ing-mas′ter a teacher of dancing.—Dance a bear (obs.) to exhibit a performing bear; Dance attendance to wait obsequiously; Dance of death a series of allegorical paintings symbolising the universal power of death represented as a skeleton; Dance upon nothing to be hanged.—Lead a person a dance to set him on an undertaking under false hopes: to delude.—Merry dancers the aurora.
埃德温娜手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of seeing a crowd of merry children dancing, signifies to the married, loving, obedient and intelligent children and a cheerful and comfortable home. To young people, it denotes easy tasks and many pleasures. To see older people dancing, denotes a brighter outlook for business. To dream of dancing yourself, some unexpected good fortune will come to you. See Ball.
珍妮特編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent and warmly loved by the vicious.
阿方索整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
A brisk, physical exercise, invented by St. Vitus.
校對:罗杰
例句/造句/用法:
- He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus's dance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They will dance a good deal, sing a good deal, make love, but sermonize very little. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Paul, then, might dance with whom he would--and woe be to the interference which put him out of step. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The dance is about to begin, said Crispin, when the garrison were all in order at their several posts. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Can dance, and play music, and sing? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And who knows but you may raise a dance, said she. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- You have a dancing face, Brummell quietly observed, fixing his eyes steadily on her countenance for a second or two, and then passing on. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I am afraid that I-- I have seen you dancing this evening, and you had the very best of the girls for your partners. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In dancing attendance at the various offices, I was always treated, more or less, as if it was a very bad offence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There was a pretty woman at the back of the shop, dancing a little child in her arms, while another little fellow clung to her apron. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Ginevra being, I suppose, tired with dancing, sought me out in my retreat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Her sister had a great desire to learn the dancing-master's art, and seemed to have a taste that way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- How she had looked before, Fanny could not recollect, for she had been dancing with Edmund herself, and had not thought about her. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It was all done in dumb show, the women danced their emotion in gesture and motion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I believe you were glad we danced no longer; but I would have given worldsall the worlds one ever has to givefor another half-hour. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She enjoyed herself very much that evening, for she danced to her heart's content. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Only think of _that_, my dear; he actually danced with her twice! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- If I mistake not that was danced at Weymouth. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I danced with a young officer the other night, whom I love a thousand times more than he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Marriage was a public institution: and the women were educated by the State, and sang and danced in public with the men. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- May I hope for the honour of your hand for the two first dances of this little projected ball, to be given, not at Randalls, but at the Crown Inn? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There is little evidence of the primitive Aryans engaging in religious dances. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Dear ma'am, only look at her face at this moment; how different from what it was the two last dances! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It had, however, been a very happy one to Fanny through four dances, and she was quite grieved to be losing even a quarter of an hour. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I hope they will give us some national dances, said Maurice to Helena, who sat beside him—who looked lovely as the Queen of Love herself. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I think Miss Fairfax dances very well; and Mrs. Weston is the very best country-dance player, without exception, in England. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- They had no theaters, no dances, no festivals. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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