calypso

FREQ #32946

n. [希腊神话]海中女神（荷马《奥德赛》中人物）

发音

UK /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
其它
US /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/

词形变化

calypsos 复数 calypsoes 复数 calypsoed calypsoing calypsos 三单 calypsos calypsoing 现在分词 calypsoed 过去式 calypsoed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.

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    'How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?' I asked him one day. He said, 'You mean how I get money?' When I nodded, he laughed in a crooked way. He said, 'I sing calypsoes in the calypso season.' 'And that last you the rest of the year?' 'It is enough.'

  2. 2.

    A song in this style of music.

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  3. 1.

    A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa

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  4. 2.

    A light blue color.

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v.
  1. 1.

    To perform calypso.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

orchid

相关短语

calypso coffee calypso coffees

词源

Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name Calypso.

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