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Pizzazz is lively, flashy style — the extra spark that makes an outfit, a show, or a person feel rather than plain. A dress with pizzazz catches the eye; a speech with no pizzazz is correct but dull. It is informal American English, a bit show-business. You would not put it in a school essay unless you were quoting someone. The spelling wobbles: pizzazz, pzazz, pizzaz. It was probably originally college or show-business slang in the United States, then the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar helped spread it in the 1930s. Nobody has a tidy Latin root for it; it is a noise-and-feel word. Though actually, it is a little dated now. Younger people still understand it, but they might more often say energy, vibe, or just style.
華麗的活力、吸睛的派頭(口語,偏美式)
組成Probably originally US college or show-business slang, then popularized in Harper's Bazaar in the 1930s. No clear smaller pieces.
原始詞典資料1 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。
pizzazznoun/pɪˈzæz/
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Flair, vitality, or zest; energy; vigor.
- The show had a lot of pizzazz, with glittering costumes and upbeat music.
- Pizazz, to quote the editor of the Harvard Lampoon, is an indefinable dynamic quality, the je ne sais quoi of function; as, for instance, adding Scotch puts the pizazz into a drink. Certain clothes have it, too. 1. There's pizazz in this rust evening coat, swinging wide in back, jutting crazily over the shoulders, clasped with a cord at the throat.
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。