serenade

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
  2. An instrumental composition in several movements.
    — “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.
动词 v.
  1. To sing or play a serenade for (someone). transitive
    — The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
  2. To woo someone. broadly

词形变化

serenades plural serenades present,singular,third-person serenading participle,present serenaded participle,past serenaded past

词汇关系

衍生词
serenader unserenaded
相关词
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词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there).
词源 2
Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there).
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