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		Definition of blues in English: bluesplural noun bluːzbluz 1often the bluestreated 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. 布鲁斯音乐(一种感伤音乐,源于美国黑人民间,多以12小节模进形式表现;19世纪末在美国南部乡村形成,后随着黑人移居城市,在20世纪40年代得到更多人的喜爱;由这种城市布鲁斯产生了节奏布鲁斯和摇滚乐)  blues has always had a strong following in Australia as modifier a blues singer Example sentencesExamples -  It was the blues with energy, music from the heart, played on whatever was around.
 -  And this is before the great twentieth-century migrations of blacks and the blues.
 -  It has further enhanced by love for rock and the blues for its simplicity of groove and expression.
 -  For years, pedantic scholars have crowed about the debt rock owes the blues.
 -  Now, just like with rock music philosophy, blues rests on the notion of the mythological, endless Saturday night.
 -  At the same time, the rise of blues festivals across the country has further commodified the blues as a feel-good music geared largely to whites.
 -  Susan adds her dazzling jazz sound of silky vocals and sultry twists to eleven recordings ranging from traditional and folk to the blues.
 -  Rather my objectives flow from a desire to revitalize our assumptions about the concepts of empowerment and agency in relation to black women and the blues.
 -  That progressed from the blues into folk and gospel music and things like that.
 -  Although the origins of the blues may never be known, the Mississippi Delta has been called the ‘home of the blues.’
 -  This gradual migration of the blues from a rural to an urban setting had an unexpected effect on the music.
 -  Some people like jazz, or rock and roll or the blues.
 -  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.
 -  By the mid-'60s, younger British musicians were adapting the urban blues as well.
 -  Yet all this activity detailing the history of the blues during the twentieth century obscures a few thorny questions.
 -  What emerges from this mixture is a very American sound that mixes jazz, country and western, rock, popular song, folk, and the blues.
 -  Here she is not only a blues poet, but also a part of a blues people grounded in a specific set of conditions that give birth to the blues as music and as world view.
 -  The great African-American exodus from the south during the first half of the twentieth century spawned a new form of urban electric-based blues.
 -  She plays the blues as filtered through the best punk rock.
 -  Just don't get him started on jazz or, worse, the blues.
 
 - 1.1treated as singular A piece of blues music.
布鲁斯乐曲 一首C调布鲁斯乐曲。 Example sentencesExamples -  I'm going to do a Blues and then I get into a Ballad and then...?
 -  They did a blues and an assortment of standards.
 -  ‘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.’
 -  Each book contains ballads, blues, Latin pieces and rags.
 
  
 2the bluesinformal Feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression. 〈非正式〉忧郁,悲伤,沮丧 她变得忧郁了。 Example sentencesExamples -  Nearly everyone has had the blues at one time or another.
 -  Talk about the blues, man - he just can't win.
 -  I had a bad case of the heart burns; a bad case of the blues.
 -  You say you've got the blues in your alligator shoes.
 -  Welford argues that there are three different forms of ‘postnatal distress’: the blues, PND and psychosis.
 -  Now we're learning that lower primates can get the blues, too.
 -  Depression goes well beyond a simple case of the blues.
 -  It also benefits from stunning scenery and has a climate to soothe all winter blues.
 -  A gents' hairdresser has got the barber's blues after thieves swiped the trademark poles which have stood outside his salon for 50 years.
 -  It's an attack of poison ivy, teenage angst and the blues all rolled into one unscratchable scourge.
 -  A collection of amusing animal photos as well as warm and inspirational texts designed to cheer up anyone who's got the blues.
 -  I've got a blue motel room, with a blue bedspread I've got the blues inside and outside my head…
 -  If you're suffering from the blues and want to see if a natural approach can help, discuss taking a medication with your doctor.
 -  Chatting to this bubbly rowing ambassadress, it is hard to believe that she ever suffers from the blues, but settling for second best would signal negative feelings this time.
 -  It's closing time at the last mall on Earth, so you'd best stock up on ‘medicine for the blues.’
 -  Well, you try cleaning the algae from an Olympic sized swimming pool on a balmy summer's day without getting some form of the blues!
 -  Depression is more than getting a bad case of the blues.
 -  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.
 -  Depression is almost unknown to these individuals because they are all so optimistic and active that they have little time for self-pity or the blues.
 
 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 
 OriginMid 18th century (in sense 2): elliptically from blue devils 'depression or delirium tremens'. Rhymesabuse, 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    Definition of blues in US English: bluesplural nounblo͞ozbluz 1or plural often the bluestreated as singular or plural Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward 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. 布鲁斯音乐(一种感伤音乐,源于美国黑人民间,多以12小节模进形式表现;19世纪末在美国南部乡村形成,后随着黑人移居城市,在20世纪40年代得到更多人的喜爱;由这种城市布鲁斯产生了节奏布鲁斯和摇滚乐) Example sentencesExamples -  What emerges from this mixture is a very American sound that mixes jazz, country and western, rock, popular song, folk, and the blues.
 -  The great African-American exodus from the south during the first half of the twentieth century spawned a new form of urban electric-based blues.
 -  At the same time, the rise of blues festivals across the country has further commodified the blues as a feel-good music geared largely to whites.
 -  And this is before the great twentieth-century migrations of blacks and the blues.
 -  It has further enhanced by love for rock and the blues for its simplicity of groove and expression.
 -  Some people like jazz, or rock and roll or the blues.
 -  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.
 -  By the mid-'60s, younger British musicians were adapting the urban blues as well.
 -  Although the origins of the blues may never be known, the Mississippi Delta has been called the ‘home of the blues.’
 -  She plays the blues as filtered through the best punk rock.
 -  Just don't get him started on jazz or, worse, the blues.
 -  Now, just like with rock music philosophy, blues rests on the notion of the mythological, endless Saturday night.
 -  Here she is not only a blues poet, but also a part of a blues people grounded in a specific set of conditions that give birth to the blues as music and as world view.
 -  It was the blues with energy, music from the heart, played on whatever was around.
 -  Susan adds her dazzling jazz sound of silky vocals and sultry twists to eleven recordings ranging from traditional and folk to the blues.
 -  Rather my objectives flow from a desire to revitalize our assumptions about the concepts of empowerment and agency in relation to black women and the blues.
 -  That progressed from the blues into folk and gospel music and things like that.
 -  Yet all this activity detailing the history of the blues during the twentieth century obscures a few thorny questions.
 -  For years, pedantic scholars have crowed about the debt rock owes the blues.
 -  This gradual migration of the blues from a rural to an urban setting had an unexpected effect on the music.
 
 - 1.1treated as singular A piece of blues music.
布鲁斯乐曲 Example sentencesExamples -  I'm going to do a Blues and then I get into a Ballad and then...?
 -  Each book contains ballads, blues, Latin pieces and rags.
 -  They did a blues and an assortment of standards.
 -  ‘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.’
 
  
 2the bluesinformal Feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression. 〈非正式〉忧郁,悲伤,沮丧 她变得忧郁了。 Example sentencesExamples -  He was basically a rich kid coming up, but he got the blues down deep in his own way.
 -  It's closing time at the last mall on Earth, so you'd best stock up on ‘medicine for the blues.’
 -  Depression is more than getting a bad case of the blues.
 -  It's an attack of poison ivy, teenage angst and the blues all rolled into one unscratchable scourge.
 -  Chatting to this bubbly rowing ambassadress, it is hard to believe that she ever suffers from the blues, but settling for second best would signal negative feelings this time.
 -  Welford argues that there are three different forms of ‘postnatal distress’: the blues, PND and psychosis.
 -  A collection of amusing animal photos as well as warm and inspirational texts designed to cheer up anyone who's got the blues.
 -  If you're suffering from the blues and want to see if a natural approach can help, discuss taking a medication with your doctor.
 -  Depression is almost unknown to these individuals because they are all so optimistic and active that they have little time for self-pity or the blues.
 -  It also benefits from stunning scenery and has a climate to soothe all winter blues.
 -  Well, you try cleaning the algae from an Olympic sized swimming pool on a balmy summer's day without getting some form of the blues!
 -  I had a bad case of the heart burns; a bad case of the blues.
 -  You say you've got the blues in your alligator shoes.
 -  Depression goes well beyond a simple case of the blues.
 -  Now we're learning that lower primates can get the blues, too.
 -  Nearly everyone has had the blues at one time or another.
 -  Your bud's got the blues: you have a bud who's just not herself lately?
 -  A gents' hairdresser has got the barber's blues after thieves swiped the trademark poles which have stood outside his salon for 50 years.
 -  I've got a blue motel room, with a blue bedspread I've got the blues inside and outside my head…
 -  Talk about the blues, man - he just can't win.
 
 Synonyms depression, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, misery, sorrow, gloominess, gloom, dejection, downheartedness, despondency, dispiritedness, low spirits, heavy-heartedness, glumness, moroseness, dismalness, despair 
 OriginMid 18th century (in blues (sense 2)): elliptically from blue devils ‘depression or delirium tremens’.     |