| 单词 |
mambo |
| 释义 |
mambo|ˈmæmbəʊ|
[Amer. Sp., ‘prob. fr. Haitian creole (voodoo priestess)’ (Webster).]
1. A kind of rumba, a ball-room dance (and its music) of Latin-American origin.
1948Call-Bulletin (San Francisco) 17 Sept. 11/1 Tony De Marco predicts the new dance fad will be ‘The Mambo’, which was introduced..last week. A zingier form of rhumba. 1950Newsweek 4 Sept. 76 The difference between the rumba and the mambo is the difference between the regular foxtrot and the jitterbug. 1951R. Chandler Let. 19 Apr. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 213, I doubt if he knows the new dance called a mambo, because it seems to be only recently discovered or developed. 1952Down Beat 25 Jan. 2/2 Prado, who says he introduced the mambo in Mexico City in 1948, claims it is merely Afrocuban rhythm with a dash of American swing. 1955Caribbean Q. IV. ii. 102 Some St. Lucians..patronize the several clubs which have jukeboxes stocked largely with mambos of the Perez Prado school. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 93 Mambo blasted from jukeboxes. 1959Listener 24 Sept. 473/1 Innumerable folk-dance sources, ranging from the square dance to Latin American mambos and the rest. 1964W. G. Raffé Dict. Dance 299/1 Mambo (Haiti), ritual dance of Voodoo; an initiation ceremonial which follows the ancient Danse Shalame (Salome) in its symbolic-realism. ‘Mambo’ is the official name for the chief priestess. 1966Crescendo Dec. 27/1 Only bossa novas and mambos seem to be played with anything like enthusiasm by these bands. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 4/3 Now the pop-music business, having scraped the hillbilly barrel and blown the froth off the mambo craze, has taken over R[hythm]-and-B[lues].
2. A voodoo priestess.
1964R. Severn Blood & Gold x. 102 She must be a Mambo.., a Voodoo priestess. 1964[see sense 1 above]. 1966Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 18/6 The author and his herbalist friend became close companions with a girl who was often thus possessed, but had to be initiated and trained by an expert sorceress or mambo. |
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