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serenade sb (with sth)
动词 serenade 是及物动词，宾语通常是人；如果需要说明所演奏或演唱的乐曲，可用 with 引出。
He serenaded her with a love song.
他用一首情歌为她献上小夜曲。
小夜曲
serenades — plural of serenade
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
小夜曲
a musical composition in several movements, with no fixed form
He serenaded her with a love song.
他用一首情歌为她献上小夜曲。
直接唱给心上人的情歌,尤指傍晚在爱人窗下演唱的歌曲。
A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
多乐章音乐作品,无固定形式
a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form
多乐章的器乐作品。
An instrumental composition in several movements.
常在女子屋外演奏的歌曲
a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman
The young man stood under her window and played a beautiful serenade on his guitar.
那个年轻人站在她的窗下，用吉他弹奏了一首优美的小夜曲。
She fell asleep listening to a soft serenade coming from the street below.
她听着楼下街道传来的轻柔小夜曲睡着了。
He wrote a serenade for her birthday and performed it at the party.
他为她的生日写了一首小夜曲，并在聚会上演奏了它。
动词 serenade 是及物动词，宾语通常是人；如果需要说明所演奏或演唱的乐曲，可用 with 引出。
He serenaded her with a love song.
他用一首情歌为她献上小夜曲。
这是名词 serenade 的常见双宾语结构，也可以说 sing/play a serenade for sb。
They sang the guests a serenade on the terrace.
他们在露台上为客人们唱了一首小夜曲。
Not this
He serenaded to her under her window.
Use this
He serenaded her under her window.
动词 serenade 是及物动词，直接以被献唱的人作宾语，不加介词 to。错误句受“给她唱小夜曲”的介词结构影响，应删去 to。
Not this
He played serenade under her window.
Use this
He played a serenade under her window.
serenade 作名词时是可数名词，表示一首小夜曲时前面需要不定冠词 a。错误句漏掉了冠词，应补上 a。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
演奏小夜曲
He played a serenade under her balcony.
他在她的阳台下演奏了一首小夜曲。
创作一首小夜曲
She composed a serenade for the festival.
她为节日创作了一首小夜曲。
月光小夜曲
They danced to a moonlight serenade on the beach.
他们在海滩上伴着月光小夜曲跳舞。
向某人献上小夜曲
He serenaded his girlfriend under her window.
他在女友的窗下为她唱小夜曲。
被（某人）献上小夜曲
We were serenaded by a string quartet.
一支弦乐四重奏为我们演奏了小夜曲。
我会为你唱小夜曲。
A lyric from the classic song 'Be My Love', made famous by Mario Lanza.
这句歌词出自马里奥·兰扎唱红的经典歌曲《Be My Love》。
我凝望星空，为你唱着夜曲。
A line from Glenn Miller's 1942 hit 'Serenade in Blue'.
出自格伦·米勒1942年的名曲《蓝色小夜曲》。
Use serenades naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
在宁静的夜晚，为心上人唱一首小夜曲（serenade）：记住它以 seren 开头，联想 serene（宁静），浪漫夜色就在眼前。
语域：formal 常见场景：classical music、music history、literary works 表示“小夜曲”的 serenade 通常用于古典音乐、音乐史或文学作品等正式或书面语境；日常口语中较少出现，比较常见于对音乐或浪漫场景的描述。
Words like parade, lemonade, arcade, and cascade rhyme with serenade, all ending in /eɪd/ with stress on the final syllable. Be careful: serene and serendipity begin with the same spelling 'seren' but sound very different (/səˈriːn/ and /ˌsɛrənˈdɪpəti/).
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.