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Muzak is recorded music that plays quietly and without end in shops, airports, and lifts, more to fill the air than to be really listened to. People often say it with a slightly tired or feeling — the music is there, but nobody chose it for joy; it is thin, safe, and easy to forget. It began as a company name in the United States in the 1930s, and it is still a trademark, but English speakers now use muzak (often with a small m) for any such background music, even when another company made it. Though actually, the people who first built the system thought they were helping workers feel steady; the joke and the eye-roll came later. Elevator music is the same idea in everyday words.
電梯音樂、（帶點貶義的）背景音樂。Muzak 本是美國商標，台灣日常多說電梯音樂。
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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。
Muzakname/ˈmjuːzæk/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicRecorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises.
- It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak. It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.
- There's no way I can change internal body functions. Only yogis can do that. Muzak, for example, can't change you. Aaron Copeland [i.e., Aaron Copland] calls Muzak 'the obsequious.' We're super-saturated with shitty music. [Originally published in New Times.]
Muzaknoun/ˈmjuːzæk/
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derogatoryentertainmentlifestylemusicEasy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.
- The sound you make is muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years
- [T]he supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store is hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out.
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derogatorySomething (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.
Muzakverb/ˈmjuːzæk/
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derogatoryTo provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak.
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derogatoryTo adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak.
- Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling.
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。