waltz

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /wɒlts/|/wɔːlts/    美 /wɔlts/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
    — Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.
  2. A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
  3. A simple task. informal
动词 v.
  1. To dance the waltz (with). intransitive,transitive
    — They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
  2. To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited. intransitive,transitive,usually
    — He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
  3. To accomplish a task with little effort. informal
    — Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.
  4. To move with fanfare. transitive
    — And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to[…] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.

词形变化

waltzes plural waltzes present,singular,third-person waltzing participle,present waltzed participle,past waltzed past

词汇关系

衍生词
bridal waltz cross-step waltz English waltz French waltz international standard waltz slow waltz Viennese waltz waltz time wedding waltz
相关词
waltzer waltz Matilda

词源

词源 1
From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną.
词源 2
From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną.
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