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词汇 Tex-Mex
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Definition of Tex-Mex in English:

Tex-Mex

adjective tɛksˈmɛksˈtɛksmɛks
  • (especially of cooking and music) having a blend of Mexican and southern American features originally characteristic of the border regions of Texas and Mexico.

    (尤指烹调、音乐)兼具墨西哥和美国南部文化特色的

    Tex-Mex ingredients
    Tex-Mex dance music
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The regular menu includes pizza, salads, other sandwiches and Tex-Mex items such as quesadillas.
    • His solo albums, explorations of ‘world music’ long before such a term existed, have featured Hawaiian slack-key guitars, Tex-Mex accordions, and Indian flutes.
    • Cafe Oren, in the same street, offers light vegetarian dishes in a stylish setting, and Los Cucarachas is a popular Tex-Mex restaurant which fills up most nights, so get there early.
    • In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands.
    • I've always loved the Tex-Mex sound and knew a few musicians who had a similar passion so I asked them to join me.
    • San Antonio prides itself on being the birthplace of Tex-Mex cooking and there are plenty of places where you can enjoy it.
    • Take time to enjoy the sights, experience some Tex-Mex cooking, and explore the culture and heritage of the city.
    • Seems the ensemble members all write and sing as well, resulting in a gripping collection of rags, country ditties and Tex-Mex tearjerkers.
    • Later, treat yourself to dinner at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, another local favorite for its Tex-Mex menu and potent top-shelf margaritas.
    • Culinary folklorists now trace Tex-Mex cooking all the way back to the state's Native American peoples and to Juan de Onate's colonists who first brought European livestock to El Paso in 1581.
    • Customers who've moved away pine for a Lila's Tex-Mex fix, confide the regulars, and rush to the restaurant the moment they return for a visit, tanking up on all the red and green salsa they can ingest.
    • Yeah, that will be good, I'll have an avocado topped off with whole sour cream and a family sized starter of Tex-Mex nachos please, with extra cheese and more guacamole.
    • The tune was also adapted to regional music genres like the Tex-Mex flavor of Texas, salsa in New York, and the mana-style rhythms of California.
    • Hungry customers gorged on Tex-Mex food and washed it down with beer or margaritas.
    • Somewhat akin to Tex-Mex tejano and banda styles, ranchera norteña sways with sweeping vocals, accordions, and the full gamut of synthesized sounds.
    • Oh, and the accordion of Los Lobos' David Hidalgo adds Tex-Mex spice to ‘Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer.’
    • Madame had ordered a Queen size New York strip steak, medium rare, while I went for the Tex-Mex dish of blackened chicken fajita.
    • Next stop, and a first for me, was to be San Antonio and a few days at that Texas city's big annual Fiesta, with mariachi music, the river walk, El Mercado, great Tex-Mex food - what more could anyone ask for?
    • Mexican Standoff wanders along the Tex-Mex musical border; Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a more straight-ahead roots rock break-up record and Got No Strings sets a bunch of Disney classics to a country and western groove.
    • Los Lonely Boys are a hard-working, hard-rocking Tex-Mex trio with an incendiary take on barroom blues.
noun tɛksˈmɛksˈtɛksmɛks
mass noun
  • 1Tex-Mex music or cooking.

    it serves very decent Tex-Mex
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mexico is an interracial culture, reflecting Indian and Spanish influences, while what many Americans consider Mexican food is really Tex-Mex and not a favorite of recently arrived Mexicans.
    • There's little pretension at the Bravo and not a drop of Americanized Tex-Mex.
    • They know the clubhouse attendant will serve Tex-Mex at least once and that the pizza he brings in is as good as any in the big leagues.
    • The music will feature a homegrown hybrid of Tex-Mex and polka called waila, or chicken scratch.
    • For some reason, Mexican food (and Tex-Mex for that matter) has had a hard time catching on, and for lovers of good Mexican and Tex-Mex, Berryhill must be a godsend.
    • Mestizaje undergirds the complex patterns of hybridity Tex-Mex, conjunto, crossover etc. - that have propelled Hispanic musics into the popular-music mainstream of North America.
    • By convincing us that Tex-Mex wasn't really Mexican food, she forced us to realize that it was something far more interesting: America's oldest regional cuisine.
    • The choice of cafés lining the riverside is dazzling: Tex-Mex, Chinese, Italian, Spanish and Indian all vie to outdo each other on price and size.
    • Much of the menu is Tex-Mex, but, refreshingly, you won't see a single cactus logo or silly hat anywhere.
    • We do not serve Tex-Mex at the Old Mexico restaurant.
    • The city is well known for its regional flavors including Mexican, Tex-Mex, and barbecue.
    • But in the past few decades, as globalization has brought Tex-Mex and other spicy foods to palates accustomed to more timid fare, tequila has gamed legitimacy and even sophistication.
    • Here the influences which contribute to the renewed energy of country are evident - the gospel of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the bluegrass of Steve Earle's contribution and the Tex-Mex of Los Super Seven.
    • Such menus often include theme nights like Italian, Cajun and Tex-Mex.
    • On ‘Wild Card’ he conjures up the ghost of Hank Williams, and even tackles some zydeco and Tex-Mex on ‘Oh Fait Pitie d' Amour.’
    • During various visits to Washington he has been known to enjoy Tex-Mex, Chinese and even a hamburger.
    • His critics presumably won't listen to the rest of the disc, but they're missing a vibrant, rejuvenated Earle, who grabs fistfuls of Tex-Mex, rock 'n' roll and gutbucket blues and subjects them to a shed-load of studio wizardry.
    • Ravago co-founded Fonda San Miguel 28 years ago in Austin, Texas, an island of authentic food from Mexico's interior in an inland sea of Tex-Mex.
    • Unfortunately, as we've looked east to China, India and Thailand for our taste of the exotic, Latin American cuisine has been notable by its absence in this part of the world, save for the odd splash of Tex-Mex.
    • The menu featured Tex-Mex, naturally, and lots of seafood, which seemed strange given the setting.
  • 2A variety of Mexican Spanish spoken in Texas.

    得克萨斯-墨西哥西班牙语

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Tex-Mex. I don't know what that other gibberish is he mumbles at times.

Origin

1940s: blend of Texan and Mexican.

Rhymes

annex, convex, ex, flex, hex, perplex, Rex, specs, Tex, vex

Definition of Tex-Mex in US English:

Tex-Mex

adjectiveˈtɛksmɛksˈteksmeks
  • (especially of cooking and music) having a blend of Mexican and southern American features originally characteristic of the border regions of Texas and Mexico.

    (尤指烹调、音乐)兼具墨西哥和美国南部文化特色的

    Tex-Mex ingredients
    Tex-Mex dance music
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later, treat yourself to dinner at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, another local favorite for its Tex-Mex menu and potent top-shelf margaritas.
    • Madame had ordered a Queen size New York strip steak, medium rare, while I went for the Tex-Mex dish of blackened chicken fajita.
    • Seems the ensemble members all write and sing as well, resulting in a gripping collection of rags, country ditties and Tex-Mex tearjerkers.
    • Yeah, that will be good, I'll have an avocado topped off with whole sour cream and a family sized starter of Tex-Mex nachos please, with extra cheese and more guacamole.
    • His solo albums, explorations of ‘world music’ long before such a term existed, have featured Hawaiian slack-key guitars, Tex-Mex accordions, and Indian flutes.
    • The regular menu includes pizza, salads, other sandwiches and Tex-Mex items such as quesadillas.
    • Hungry customers gorged on Tex-Mex food and washed it down with beer or margaritas.
    • Oh, and the accordion of Los Lobos' David Hidalgo adds Tex-Mex spice to ‘Please Let Me Stay a Little Longer.’
    • Cafe Oren, in the same street, offers light vegetarian dishes in a stylish setting, and Los Cucarachas is a popular Tex-Mex restaurant which fills up most nights, so get there early.
    • The tune was also adapted to regional music genres like the Tex-Mex flavor of Texas, salsa in New York, and the mana-style rhythms of California.
    • I've always loved the Tex-Mex sound and knew a few musicians who had a similar passion so I asked them to join me.
    • In Texas, the first thing to hit me was the iconography - of the cowboy, the Southwest, and the landscape, along with rich Tex-Mex culture represented by the Mariachi bands.
    • Next stop, and a first for me, was to be San Antonio and a few days at that Texas city's big annual Fiesta, with mariachi music, the river walk, El Mercado, great Tex-Mex food - what more could anyone ask for?
    • Mexican Standoff wanders along the Tex-Mex musical border; Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a more straight-ahead roots rock break-up record and Got No Strings sets a bunch of Disney classics to a country and western groove.
    • Somewhat akin to Tex-Mex tejano and banda styles, ranchera norteña sways with sweeping vocals, accordions, and the full gamut of synthesized sounds.
    • Customers who've moved away pine for a Lila's Tex-Mex fix, confide the regulars, and rush to the restaurant the moment they return for a visit, tanking up on all the red and green salsa they can ingest.
    • Take time to enjoy the sights, experience some Tex-Mex cooking, and explore the culture and heritage of the city.
    • Los Lonely Boys are a hard-working, hard-rocking Tex-Mex trio with an incendiary take on barroom blues.
    • Culinary folklorists now trace Tex-Mex cooking all the way back to the state's Native American peoples and to Juan de Onate's colonists who first brought European livestock to El Paso in 1581.
    • San Antonio prides itself on being the birthplace of Tex-Mex cooking and there are plenty of places where you can enjoy it.
nounˈtɛksmɛksˈteksmeks
  • 1Tex-Mex music or cooking.

    it serves very decent Tex-Mex
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We do not serve Tex-Mex at the Old Mexico restaurant.
    • The music will feature a homegrown hybrid of Tex-Mex and polka called waila, or chicken scratch.
    • During various visits to Washington he has been known to enjoy Tex-Mex, Chinese and even a hamburger.
    • The choice of cafés lining the riverside is dazzling: Tex-Mex, Chinese, Italian, Spanish and Indian all vie to outdo each other on price and size.
    • For some reason, Mexican food (and Tex-Mex for that matter) has had a hard time catching on, and for lovers of good Mexican and Tex-Mex, Berryhill must be a godsend.
    • But in the past few decades, as globalization has brought Tex-Mex and other spicy foods to palates accustomed to more timid fare, tequila has gamed legitimacy and even sophistication.
    • They know the clubhouse attendant will serve Tex-Mex at least once and that the pizza he brings in is as good as any in the big leagues.
    • By convincing us that Tex-Mex wasn't really Mexican food, she forced us to realize that it was something far more interesting: America's oldest regional cuisine.
    • His critics presumably won't listen to the rest of the disc, but they're missing a vibrant, rejuvenated Earle, who grabs fistfuls of Tex-Mex, rock 'n' roll and gutbucket blues and subjects them to a shed-load of studio wizardry.
    • Here the influences which contribute to the renewed energy of country are evident - the gospel of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the bluegrass of Steve Earle's contribution and the Tex-Mex of Los Super Seven.
    • The menu featured Tex-Mex, naturally, and lots of seafood, which seemed strange given the setting.
    • Such menus often include theme nights like Italian, Cajun and Tex-Mex.
    • Mestizaje undergirds the complex patterns of hybridity Tex-Mex, conjunto, crossover etc. - that have propelled Hispanic musics into the popular-music mainstream of North America.
    • On ‘Wild Card’ he conjures up the ghost of Hank Williams, and even tackles some zydeco and Tex-Mex on ‘Oh Fait Pitie d' Amour.’
    • Much of the menu is Tex-Mex, but, refreshingly, you won't see a single cactus logo or silly hat anywhere.
    • Unfortunately, as we've looked east to China, India and Thailand for our taste of the exotic, Latin American cuisine has been notable by its absence in this part of the world, save for the odd splash of Tex-Mex.
    • Mexico is an interracial culture, reflecting Indian and Spanish influences, while what many Americans consider Mexican food is really Tex-Mex and not a favorite of recently arrived Mexicans.
    • Ravago co-founded Fonda San Miguel 28 years ago in Austin, Texas, an island of authentic food from Mexico's interior in an inland sea of Tex-Mex.
    • The city is well known for its regional flavors including Mexican, Tex-Mex, and barbecue.
    • There's little pretension at the Bravo and not a drop of Americanized Tex-Mex.
  • 2A variety of Mexican Spanish spoken in Texas.

    得克萨斯-墨西哥西班牙语

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Tex-Mex. I don't know what that other gibberish is he mumbles at times.

Origin

1940s: blend of Texan and Mexican.

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