play bluegrass
蓝草音乐是不可数名词,不加冠词,也没有复数形式。
They play bluegrass every Friday night.
他们每周五晚上演奏蓝草音乐。
蓝草音乐
先理解核心含义,再看它在真实句子里的用法。
蓝草音乐
a style of country music played fast on banjos and guitars
They play bluegrass every Friday night.
他们每周五晚上演奏蓝草音乐。
肯塔基蓝草(草地早熟禾)。
Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis).
乡村音乐的一个子流派,源自苏格兰-爱尔兰阿巴拉契亚民间音乐、布鲁斯和爵士,特色为班卓琴、小提琴、原声吉他、多布罗和曼陀林;不含鼓、电吉他、钢琴或其他键盘/管乐器,以低音提琴维持节奏。
A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments; using a bass fiddle to carry its rhythm.
My grandfather loves listening to bluegrass on Saturday mornings.
我祖父喜欢周六早上听蓝草音乐。
She learned to play bluegrass on the banjo.
她学会了用班卓琴演奏蓝草音乐。
We went to a bluegrass festival in the mountains last summer.
去年夏天我们去山里参加了一个蓝草音乐节。
蓝草音乐是不可数名词,不加冠词,也没有复数形式。
They play bluegrass every Friday night.
他们每周五晚上演奏蓝草音乐。
指早熟禾属植物时,复数形式为 bluegrasses。
This bluegrass grows in moist fields.
这种早熟禾生长在潮湿的田野里。
指肯塔基州中部的地区时,首字母大写,并与 the 连用。
The Bluegrass is famous for its horses.
蓝草地区以马匹闻名。
Not this
I heard a bluegrass on the radio.
Use this
I heard a bluegrass song on the radio.
蓝草音乐(bluegrass)是不可数名词,前面不能直接加 a。要表达“一首蓝草歌曲”,需要在 a 后面加上可数名词 song,让 bluegrass 作定语。
Not this
I am very interested on bluegrass.
Use this
I am very interested in bluegrass.
表示“对……感兴趣”应用 be interested in,介词用 in 而不是 on。这是固定搭配,不能按中文“对”的意思选择 on。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
蓝草音乐(一种以班卓琴和吉他快速演奏为特点的美国乡村音乐)
She grew up listening to bluegrass music in the Appalachian Mountains.
她在阿巴拉契亚山区听着蓝草音乐长大。
蓝草乐队
The bluegrass band played at the county fair last weekend.
那支蓝草乐队上周末在县集市上演出。
蓝草音乐节
We drove to Tennessee for the annual bluegrass festival.
我们开车去田纳西州参加一年一度的蓝草音乐节。
肯塔基蓝草(一种早熟禾属牧草)
The lawn was covered in thick Kentucky bluegrass.
草坪上长满了茂密的肯塔基蓝草。
蓝草之州(美国肯塔基州的别称)
Kentucky is called the Bluegrass State because of its famous pastures.
肯塔基州因盛产蓝草牧场而被称为“蓝草之州”。
蓝草地区(美国肯塔基州中部地区)
Horse farms are common in the bluegrass region of Kentucky.
马场在肯塔基州的蓝草地区很常见。
蓝草之州(美国肯塔基州的别称)
Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.
肯塔基州以“蓝草之州”闻名。
Use bluegrass naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
blue(蓝)+ grass(草),想象肯塔基州蓝绿色的草地,吉他班卓琴奏出蓝草音乐。
语域:mixed 常见场景:botany/agricultural、central Kentucky geography、country music genre bluegrass 各义项的使用场合差别较大:植物学/农业中指早熟禾属草类,地名中指美国肯塔基州中部的蓝草地区,音乐中则指快速节奏的乡村音乐。整体以中性用法为主,通常根据具体语境即可判断所指。
这组词末尾都拼作 -grass,且重音都在第一个音节上,因此词尾 -grass 不重读。bluegrass 的重音在 blue 上,所以这些词都不是 bluegrass 的真正押韵词(也没有常见词与 bluegrass 押韵)。注意拼写相似的 blue /bluː/ 和 grass /ɡræs/ 容易让人误以为读音相近,但 bluegrass 作为复合词有自己的重音模式。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.