blues

blues
plural noun

(常作 the blues)[treated as sing. or pl.]melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll
布鲁斯音乐（一种感伤音乐，源于美国黑人民间，多以12小节模进形式表现；19世纪末在美国南部乡村形成，后随着黑人移居城市，在20世纪40年代得到更多人的喜爱；由这种城市布鲁斯产生了节奏布鲁斯和摇滚乐）
■[treated as sing.]a piece of such music:
布鲁斯乐曲
a blues in C.
一首C调布鲁斯乐曲。
(the blues)(informal)feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression
(非正式)忧郁，悲伤，沮丧
she's got the blues.
她变得忧郁了。

派生
bluesy
adjective

语源

mid 18th cent. (in sense 2): elliptically from blue devils 'depression or delirium tremens'

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