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

• Nancy: Jazz is a kind of music that uses a lot of improvisation, which means they make things up.
  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。
• Laid-off workers are finding new jobs, motorists are driving less and cooks are trawling the internet for recipes to jazz up the leftovers in the fridge.
  失业的人正在寻找新工作，开车的越来越少，主妇们正在网上搜罗着处理冰箱里剩饭的新点子。
• Hot pink accents further jazz up the bathroom's look, but they could easily be changed out for yellow or green, she notes.
  粉红色调子使浴室的外观进一步爵士化，但他们很容易被改变成黄色或绿色，她提到。
• 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。
• 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。
• They sent a jazz band to cheer up their allies.
  他们派了一个爵士乐队来慰劳。
• Okay, you babes of jazz, let's pick up the pace.
  好了，爵士辣妹，加快节奏吧！
• 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。
• You're lying to jazz up your otherwise miserable life.
  你说谎调解你的悲惨生活。
• Sometimes they jazz up their adverts, logos and branding, but such efforts are like putting lipstick on a pig.
  有时，它们会让它们的广告、标识和品牌变得生动有趣，但此类努力是一种忽悠人的伎俩。