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A fandango is a lively dance from Spain (and also known in parts of South America), or the music people dance it to. It is usually fast, with clicking steps and a strong beat; couples often dance it.
A fandango is a lively dancefandango是一種活潑的舞 from Spain來自西班牙 and also known in parts of South America在南美洲部分地區也有 or the music people dance it to或指人們跳這種舞用的音樂 It is usually fast它通常節奏很快 with clicking steps and a strong beat有清脆的踏步聲和強烈的節拍 couples often dance it通常是兩人一起跳
Do not mix it up with , which is a wider Spanish song-and-dance tradition: a fandango is one kind of dance, with its own tune.
Do not mix it up with flamenco不要把它跟flamenco搞混 which is a wider Spanish song-and-dance traditionflamenco是範圍更大的西班牙歌舞傳統 a fandango is one kind of dancefandango只是其中一種舞 with its own tune有自己專屬的曲調
English borrowed the word from Spanish. Where the Spanish word itself came from is not settled — it may be linked to Portuguese fado, or it may have a West African source; nobody should pretend that part is certain.
English borrowed the word英文這個字是借來的 from Spanish借自西班牙文 Where the Spanish word itself came from西班牙文這個字本身的來源 is not settled還沒有定論 it may be linked to Portuguese fado可能跟葡萄牙文的fado有關 or it may have a West African source或可能來自西非 nobody should pretend that part is certain沒有人該假裝這部分是確定的
In very informal English, people sometimes stretch fandango to mean a noisy fuss or a carry-on, but the home meaning is still the dance.
In very informal English在非常口語的英文裡 people sometimes stretch fandango有人會把fandango延伸來用 to mean a noisy fuss or a complicated carry-on指吵鬧的騷動或麻煩複雜的一堆事 but the home meaning is still the dance不過它本來的意思還是指這種舞
組成Borrowed from Spanish fandango. The Spanish origin is uncertain; it is possibly related to Portuguese fado, or possibly West African.
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fandangonoun/ˌfænˈdæŋ.ɡəʊ̯/
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dancedancingentertainmentA form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- The soldiers were oftener gambling and dancing beneath the walls than keeping watch upon the battlements, and nothing was heard from morning till night but the noisy contests of cards and dice, mingled with the sound of the bolero or fandango, the drowsy strumming of the guitar, and the rattling of the castanets, while often the whole was interrupted by the loud brawl and fierce and bloody contest.
- […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots.
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A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- When Auguste Fretéllière and the painter Theodore Gentilz attended a fandango in the 1840s, the festivities took place near Military Plaza.
- Fortunately, in the nineteenth century Iosé Maria Esteva wrote a poetic and detailed account of 'La guanabana' being danced by a group of women at a fandango.
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An unknown entity or contraption.
- What’s that fandango you’re using?
- She had on a new silk dress, flounced clear up to her knees, and some kind of a fandango of a thing on her shoulders.
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A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- To my infinite amusement it did take, and I had the satisfaction of seeing it on the boards and also hearing the audience roar with laughter; in fact, I laughed myself, not at my own jokes, but at the people who could be amused at such a fandango of nonsense.
- A splotch of colour on a wall charmed his eye, a fandango of shadows, the nonchalant pose of some labourer.
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An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- I am preparing to set out in a fortnight, or little more, and jogging on comfortably through Bavaria, Suabia, and France (with a fandango of eight days at Paris), I shall get to Calais in the first week of May.
- Venice whirled towards her fall, in the reign of the 120th Doge, in a fandango of high living and enjoyment, until at last Napoleon, brusquely deposing her ineffective Government, ended the Republic and handed the Serenissima contemptuously to the Austrians.
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A shade of red-violet.
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Vagina.
- So, what? She strangled her and stuck a broken bottle up her... fandango?
fandangoverb/ˌfænˈdæŋ.ɡəʊ̯/
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dancedancinghobbiesTo dance the fandango.
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To dance, particularly with a lot of energy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。