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- a lively style of dance popular especially in the 1940s and 1950s, performed to swing music or rock and roll摇摆舞（尤指流行于20世纪40和50年代的一种欢快舞蹈, 伴有摇摆乐或摇滚乐）。
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- mass noun swing music摇摆乐。
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- mass noun a style of dance music popular in South Africa（一种南非流行的）摇摆舞曲：
township jive.
城镇摇摆舞曲。
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- （亦作jive talk）[mass noun] a form of slang associated with black American jazz musicians美国黑人爵士乐师使用的一种俚语。
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- informal, chiefly N. Amer. a thing, especially talk, which is deceptive or worthless〈非正式, 主北美〉骗人的东西; 蹩脚货, 没价值的东西; （尤指）假话, 空话：
a single image says more than any amount of blather and jive.
一个图像要比无数废话和空话所表达的要多。
informal <非正式>
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- no obj. perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music（伴着流行音乐）跳摇摆舞等：
people were jiving in the aisles.
人们在走廊上跳着摇摆舞。
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- with obj. N. Amer. informal taunt or sneer at〈北美, 非正式〉辱骂, 嘲弄; 讥讽, 讥笑, 嘲笑：
Willy kept jiving him until Jimmy left.
威利不停地嘲笑吉米直到他离开。
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- no obj. talk nonsense胡说, 胡扯; 说蠢话：
he wasn't jiving about that bartender.
他并不是在胡说那酒吧招待。
- N. Amer. informal deceitful or worthless〈北美, 非正式〉欺诈的, 骗人的; 无价值的。
派生词
jiver
nounjivey
adjective词源
1920s (originally US denoting meaningless or misleading speech)： of unknown origin; the later musical sense 'jazz' gave rise to 'dance performed to jazz' (1940s).