mambo

FREQ #16172

n. 曼博舞, 曼博音乐 vi. 跳曼博舞

发音

UK /ˈmæmbəʊ/
其它
US /ˈmɑmboʊ/

词形变化

mamboes mambos 复数 mambos mamboes 复数 mamboed mamboing mambos 三单 mamboing 现在分词 mamboed 过去式 mamboed 过去分词

别名

manbo

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

    可数 不可数

    The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.

    In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.

  2. 2.

    A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

    曼波

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To perform this dance.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

dance dancing saltation
动词

上位词 3

dance trip the light fantastic trip the light fantastic toe

相关短语

mambo sauce mumbo sauce horizontal mambo

词源

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

来源：wiktionary