jive

ジャイブを踊る

スウィングなどの音楽に合わせ、素早く軽快な動きで踊る。

やさしい英語で： To dance with quick, lively movements to swing music or similar popular music.

• We learned to jive together.
• They jived across the dance floor.
• Can you jive to this song?

使い方： jive to something (They jived to the band's lively music.)

類義語： dance

よく使う表現： jive to music, jive with someone, learn to jive

一致する、つじつまが合う

ほかの事柄と合っている、またはつじつまが合う。

やさしい英語で： To agree with something else or fit well with it.

• Those two stories don't jive.
• Her explanation jives with the facts.
• The numbers didn't jive with our earlier report.

使い方： jive with something (His account doesn't jive with the evidence.)

類義語： agree, match, jibe

反対語： conflict, clash

よく使う表現： jive with something, jive together, does not jive

だます、からかう

人をだましたり、本当ではないことを言ったりする。

やさしい英語で： To trick someone or say things that are not true.

• Don't jive me; tell me the truth.
• He was jiving us about his rich uncle.
• Are you jiving, or did that really happen?

類義語： deceive, fool, kid

よく使う表現： jive someone, jive me, jive about something

ジャズの俗語で話す

ジャズ音楽家の間で使われるくだけた言葉や表現で話す。

やさしい英語で： To talk using the informal words and expressions associated with jazz musicians.

• The musicians jived backstage after the show.
• He loved jiving with the jazz crowd.
• They jived about the band, using words I barely understood.

よく使う表現： jive with someone, jive about jazz

ジャイブ

多くは二人でスウィングに合わせ、素早いステップで踊る活発なダンス。

やさしい英語で： A lively dance with quick steps, often performed by two people to swing music.

• They danced the jive together.
• Our next lesson covers basic jive steps.
• The couple won a prize for their jive.

よく使う表現： dance the jive, jive steps, jive lesson

スウィング音楽

踊りやすい、はっきりしたリズムの軽快なジャズ音楽。

やさしい英語で： Lively jazz music with a strong rhythm that people can dance to.

• The band played jive all evening.
• She collects old jive records.
• Lively jive filled the club and drew everyone onto the dance floor.

類義語： swing

よく使う表現： jive music, play jive, jive band

ジャズの俗語

ジャズ音楽家やその仲間たちが使う、くだけた言葉や表現。

やさしい英語で： The informal words and expressions used by jazz musicians and people connected with them.

• He spoke jive with the musicians.
• Some expressions from jive entered everyday English.
• She studied the jive used in old jazz clubs.

類義語： jazz slang

よく使う表現： speak jive, jazz jive, jive talk