[65] 英文汇总--音乐、电影种类

Music styles:

Rock: To play or dance to rock 'n' roll.

Rap: A form of popular music characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment.

R&B: Rhythm and Blues

Pop: Of, relating to, or specializing in popular music:

Country: Of or relating to country music.

Jazz: A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.

Classical: Of or relating to music in the educated European tradition, such as symphony and opera, as opposed to popular or folk music.

Gospel: Gospel music.

Other:

Salsa: 萨尔萨舞曲A popular form of Latin-American dance music, characterized by Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Cuban big-band dance melodies, and elements of jazz and rock.

Movie styles:

Science fiction movies: 科幻影片A cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.

Soap operas: 肥皂剧 A drama, typically performed as a serial on daytime television or radio, characterized by stock characters and situations, sentimentality, and melodrama.

Horror films: 恐怖电影

Thrillers: 悬疑电影One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful movie.

Music instrument:

Cello: 大提琴A four-stringed instrument of the violin family, pitched lower than the viola but higher than the double bass.

Piano: 钢琴An instrument with a manual keyboard actuating hammers that strike wire strings, producing sounds that may be softened or sustained by means of pedals. Also be called pianoforte.

Guitar: 吉他An instrument having a large, flat-backed sound box similar in shape to a violin, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.

Saxophone: 萨克斯管A woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece and a usually curved conical metal tube, including soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sizes.

Group: 组合 like Backstreet boys, Beatles