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词汇 disco
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Definition of disco in English:

disco

nounPlural discos ˈdɪskəʊˈdɪskoʊ
  • 1A club or party at which people dance to pop music.

    迪斯科舞厅;迪斯科舞会

    on Friday evenings, he often attended a disco with school friends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nightspots seem to be the police's main target, apparently based on their assumption that most drug-related crimes take place in nightclubs, discotheques and such.
    • The noise and music from the bars, the restaurants and the discotheques gets all mixed up to produce an indescribable cacophony of sounds which carries on until the wee hours of the night and hardly lets anyone sleep.
    • They were ‘employed’ through intermediaries and announcements in clubs, bars and discotheques seeking people with computer literacy and good English.
    • Dancing halls, discotheques, beauty parlors and Internet bars are places that engage in the ‘beauty economy.’
    • The nation's 14 million smokers braced Friday for a new law which comes into force Monday banning them from smoking in public places including bars, restaurants, discotheques and offices.
    • These will ban the carrying of firearms in restaurants, clubs, discotheques and pubs between 10 pm and 6 am.
    • People frequently meet partners at school, university, or at work, although discotheques and clubs in the cities have become popular meeting places.
    • It could well become a tourist attraction in itself, as the city residents get bored with amusement parks, discotheques, shopping malls and hotels with familiar decor.
    • The village itself has two guarded beaches, many small family hotels, clubs, bars, restaurants and discotheques, currency change bureaus and regular public bus transport and taxis.
    • Cities are littered with singles clubs and discotheques that aim to pair people up, even if it's just for a one-night stand.
    • In the city, young people go to discotheques and other dance events on weekends.
    • The law which came into force on June 24 is seeing owners of not just cabarets but also lounge bars, restaurants and discotheques struggling to meet stringent licensing conditions.
    • During the past quarter-century, bars, discotheques and theaters sprouted all over Baghdad.
    • The organisers have also arranged a lucky draw with prizes like tickets to movies, amusement parks and discotheques.
    • Monday night and there he was, at the discotheque watching the teenagers dancing to the music.
    • The two make regular visits to schools and discotheques, and also put on street performances.
    • For music and dance freaks, the in-house discotheque offers a diversion.
    • The trend here is to convert hotel coffee shops into weekend discotheques.
    • It has a restaurant, a bar, a sandy swimming pool and, on some nights, a discotheque.
    • ‘No matter what good product you do, it is the marketing effort that matters ultimately,’ says the singer, who is slated to perform live in many city discotheques for the promotion of her new album.
    Synonyms
    social gathering, gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social
    1. 1.1 The lighting and sound equipment used at a disco.
      迪斯科舞厅的声光设备
      no one knows how to waltz so I've ordered a disco

      没人知道怎么跳华尔兹,所以我订购了一套迪斯科设备。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition to all this work, we hired a disco to provide entertainment in the social.
      • My friends are having an 18th party for their twins and have hired a disco.
      • If you have hired a Disco as well that's fine- we like working with Discos.
      • We hired a disco, which played really cheesy music but it was perfect.
  • 2

    short for disco music
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hip-hop, trance music, disco, and house quickly became an obsession for her.
    • Like most of the disco, hip swinging, love songs that populate the album these are especially polished and crisply produced.
    • He navigates through that abyss that few artists dare to explore, culling from the far reaches of jazz, lounge, disco, and even classical music.
    • At such times, electronic music presents a singularly cold shoulder, disco is too upbeat, jazz too knotty, new wave too garrulous.
    • The idea of disco infused hardcore doesn't exactly reek of intrepid musical exploration.
    • The 18 tracks of psychedelic pop, disco grooves and film snips may be a patchwork quilt of musical oddities, but one that is seamless.
    • The song sounds like a fleet of androids racing and screaming toward the future, underpinned by a churning disco beat.
    • The work's equally edgy score incorporates techno, disco, and house music.
    • Make no mistake about it - this is not an electronica album, or even a house album - it's disco.
    • It is a dirty disco tune with an anthemic rock chorus.
    • As for music, Bristol's hippest DJs are all here - spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, jazz and disco.
    • As disco went back underground at the beginning of the '80s, it went through a bit of a stylistic makeover.
    • Then again it is this interplay between classic rock riffs and disco beats that make some of these songs timeless classics.
    • The group mixed garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal and chucked the result into our faces with deliberately dumb lyrics.
    • That track laid the foundations for future success, exemplifying their ability to fuse jazz and funk with disco elements.
    • The group scored the first major reggae, rock / disco and hip-hop hits.
    • Fans of the band won't be surprised at the glossy fusion of house, disco and jazz; however their crystalline production value and song writing have been cranked up a gear.
    • In attempting to appeal to a wider audience he has opted for a lightweight disco and soft pop-soul vocabulary, watering down the impact of what was once one of soul music's most distinctive voices.
    • In 1996 he released a long player that shocked his tecchier fans by encompassing not just techno and house but also disco, electro and more than a dash of orchestral drama.
    • Taking the best parts of electro, techno and disco, he composes on the fly and makes instantly catchy and melodic dance tracks.
verbdiscoed, discoing, discoes ˈdɪskəʊˈdɪskoʊ
[no object]
  • Attend or dance at a disco.

    去迪斯科舞厅;跳迪斯科舞

    she filled every hour of the day playing tennis, or discoing with friends

    她每天打网球或者和一帮朋友去跳迪斯科,把时间排得满满的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since I couldn't disco or drink the rest of the night away, it was time to retire, which we did.
    • We had three large bags of cans when we exited the hall while the students were discoing.
    • Even if you didn't disco or drink your way into your coworkers' memories last year, it doesn't hurt to review the dos and don'ts of party going.
    • One man is discoing, while another rocks back and forth with arms straight ahead, as if impersonating a zombie.
    • I couldn't dance, I couldn't disco, so my teenage years were terrible.
    • We were discoing until four in the morning, partying every night.
    • Many, many players were discoing tonight. I discoed 4 times in a row.
    • We sat down with loud disco music blaring away and a few girls were discoing on the tiny space between tables.
    • However there are no dazzling lights, no exciting music, no wine or scent of perfume when you disco on the tideland.
    • A few seconds later, she was discoing.
    Synonyms
    dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce

Origin

1960s (originally US): abbreviation of discotheque.

Rhymes

cisco, Disko, Morisco, pisco, San Francisco

Definition of disco in US English:

disco

nounˈdiskōˈdɪskoʊ
informal
  • 1A club or party at which people dance to pop music.

    迪斯科舞厅;迪斯科舞会

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nightspots seem to be the police's main target, apparently based on their assumption that most drug-related crimes take place in nightclubs, discotheques and such.
    • The village itself has two guarded beaches, many small family hotels, clubs, bars, restaurants and discotheques, currency change bureaus and regular public bus transport and taxis.
    • For music and dance freaks, the in-house discotheque offers a diversion.
    • The noise and music from the bars, the restaurants and the discotheques gets all mixed up to produce an indescribable cacophony of sounds which carries on until the wee hours of the night and hardly lets anyone sleep.
    • Cities are littered with singles clubs and discotheques that aim to pair people up, even if it's just for a one-night stand.
    • The nation's 14 million smokers braced Friday for a new law which comes into force Monday banning them from smoking in public places including bars, restaurants, discotheques and offices.
    • Monday night and there he was, at the discotheque watching the teenagers dancing to the music.
    • The two make regular visits to schools and discotheques, and also put on street performances.
    • It has a restaurant, a bar, a sandy swimming pool and, on some nights, a discotheque.
    • It could well become a tourist attraction in itself, as the city residents get bored with amusement parks, discotheques, shopping malls and hotels with familiar decor.
    • They were ‘employed’ through intermediaries and announcements in clubs, bars and discotheques seeking people with computer literacy and good English.
    • These will ban the carrying of firearms in restaurants, clubs, discotheques and pubs between 10 pm and 6 am.
    • The trend here is to convert hotel coffee shops into weekend discotheques.
    • In the city, young people go to discotheques and other dance events on weekends.
    • The organisers have also arranged a lucky draw with prizes like tickets to movies, amusement parks and discotheques.
    • The law which came into force on June 24 is seeing owners of not just cabarets but also lounge bars, restaurants and discotheques struggling to meet stringent licensing conditions.
    • During the past quarter-century, bars, discotheques and theaters sprouted all over Baghdad.
    • ‘No matter what good product you do, it is the marketing effort that matters ultimately,’ says the singer, who is slated to perform live in many city discotheques for the promotion of her new album.
    • Dancing halls, discotheques, beauty parlors and Internet bars are places that engage in the ‘beauty economy.’
    • People frequently meet partners at school, university, or at work, although discotheques and clubs in the cities have become popular meeting places.
    Synonyms
    social gathering, gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social
  • 2Pop music intended mainly for dancing to at discos, typically soul-influenced and melodic with a regular bass beat and popular particularly in the late 1970s.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He navigates through that abyss that few artists dare to explore, culling from the far reaches of jazz, lounge, disco, and even classical music.
    • The group scored the first major reggae, rock / disco and hip-hop hits.
    • At such times, electronic music presents a singularly cold shoulder, disco is too upbeat, jazz too knotty, new wave too garrulous.
    • Hip-hop, trance music, disco, and house quickly became an obsession for her.
    • As disco went back underground at the beginning of the '80s, it went through a bit of a stylistic makeover.
    • Like most of the disco, hip swinging, love songs that populate the album these are especially polished and crisply produced.
    • The idea of disco infused hardcore doesn't exactly reek of intrepid musical exploration.
    • The work's equally edgy score incorporates techno, disco, and house music.
    • It is a dirty disco tune with an anthemic rock chorus.
    • As for music, Bristol's hippest DJs are all here - spinning soul, funk, hip-hop, jazz and disco.
    • Taking the best parts of electro, techno and disco, he composes on the fly and makes instantly catchy and melodic dance tracks.
    • The song sounds like a fleet of androids racing and screaming toward the future, underpinned by a churning disco beat.
    • Then again it is this interplay between classic rock riffs and disco beats that make some of these songs timeless classics.
    • The 18 tracks of psychedelic pop, disco grooves and film snips may be a patchwork quilt of musical oddities, but one that is seamless.
    • Make no mistake about it - this is not an electronica album, or even a house album - it's disco.
    • That track laid the foundations for future success, exemplifying their ability to fuse jazz and funk with disco elements.
    • In attempting to appeal to a wider audience he has opted for a lightweight disco and soft pop-soul vocabulary, watering down the impact of what was once one of soul music's most distinctive voices.
    • The group mixed garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal and chucked the result into our faces with deliberately dumb lyrics.
    • In 1996 he released a long player that shocked his tecchier fans by encompassing not just techno and house but also disco, electro and more than a dash of orchestral drama.
    • Fans of the band won't be surprised at the glossy fusion of house, disco and jazz; however their crystalline production value and song writing have been cranked up a gear.
verbˈdiskōˈdɪskoʊ
[no object]informal
  • Attend or dance at a disco.

    去迪斯科舞厅;跳迪斯科舞

    for the next three hours he discoed nonstop
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We sat down with loud disco music blaring away and a few girls were discoing on the tiny space between tables.
    • We were discoing until four in the morning, partying every night.
    • We had three large bags of cans when we exited the hall while the students were discoing.
    • However there are no dazzling lights, no exciting music, no wine or scent of perfume when you disco on the tideland.
    • One man is discoing, while another rocks back and forth with arms straight ahead, as if impersonating a zombie.
    • A few seconds later, she was discoing.
    • Since I couldn't disco or drink the rest of the night away, it was time to retire, which we did.
    • I couldn't dance, I couldn't disco, so my teenage years were terrible.
    • Even if you didn't disco or drink your way into your coworkers' memories last year, it doesn't hurt to review the dos and don'ts of party going.
    • Many, many players were discoing tonight. I discoed 4 times in a row.
    Synonyms
    dance, jig, leap, jump, skip, bounce

Origin

1960s (originally US): abbreviation of discotheque.

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