jazz up

英 [dʒæz ʌp]

美 [dʒæz ʌp]

使更有趣; 使更绚丽多彩; 使更令人兴奋; 使更具流行音乐（或爵士乐）风格

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 使更有趣；使更绚丽多彩；使更令人兴奋
  If youjazzsomethingup, you make it look more interesting, colourful, or exciting.
  1. Mary Ann had made an effort at jazzing up the chilly modern interiors...
     玛丽·安曾经试图改变冷冰冰的现代室内装饰，使之更活泼多彩。
  2. I don't think they're just jazzing it up for the media.
     我并不认为他们仅仅是为了吸引媒体的目光才把它搞得有声有色的。
• PHRASAL VERB 使更具流行音乐（或爵士乐）风格
  If someonejazzes upa piece of music, they change it in order to make it sound more like popular music or jazz.
  1. Instead of playing it in the traditional style, she jazzed it up...
     她并没有按照传统风格演奏，而是糅合了爵士乐风格。
  2. Stephen and I are going to jazz up the love songs...
     斯蒂芬和我打算给那些爱情歌曲注入流行元素。
  3. The tune is basically the same as the old one, but considerably jazzed up.
     调子基本还是老调子，但已在很大程度上转变为爵士乐风格。

英英释义

verb

• make more interesting or lively
  1. juice up a party
  2. pep up your paper
  Synonym:juice uppep upginger up

双语例句

• I don't care if they want to jazz up Bach, but I wish they would leave Beethoven alone.
  如果他们想把巴赫的乐曲改编成爵士乐我不在乎，但我希望他不要这样去改贝多芬的乐曲。
• Autobot Jazz: What's up little* es?
  爵士：怎么了？小混蛋？
• They say the resolution is good, and they can add glitter and sparkles to jazz up the image.
  他们说，美甲喷绘不仅清晰度好，而且还可以在其上装饰亮点使之更为光彩夺目。
• She had a drink to jazz herself up.
  她喝了杯酒来兴奋一下。
• Jazz the dress up with some bright accessories.
  用几件鲜亮的饰物使连衣裙生色。
• If the Jazz has any hope of a first-round upset, it's because of Williams'knack for carving up the Lakers off the dribble.
  如果爵士能够制造一些麻烦的话，那是因为威廉姆斯分割了湖人的球。
• In her rendition of "At Last," famously sung by jazz great Etta James, the rail-car cleaner was backed up by musicians who are also colleagues at Metro.
  这位地铁车厢清洁工演唱了著名爵士歌手（EttaJames）曾出色地演绎过的歌曲“最后”（AtLast）。
• WY: The models follow your specific directions on the scene; you don't let them improvise. Nancy: Jazz is a kind of music that uses a lot of improvisation, which means they make things up.
  王寅：模特在现场完全是按照你的指令去摆布，不是让她们即兴发挥。爵士乐是一种非常即兴发挥的音乐，也就是说，乐者都是现场创作的。
• Originally known as a way to jazz up Web pages with graphic animations stock tickers that crawl across your screen, for example, and dancing icons Java has quickly evolved into a whole lot more.
  最初，它是以一种利用图形动画来活跃Web页面的一种方法闻名，例如，股票报价从屏幕上慢慢移动和跳跃的图标，Java很快全面介入。
• Getting into jazz really strengthened my ears* which brings up another point.
  接触到爵士乐真的让我的耳朵进步很多，这也带到我下一个重点。