tango

来自阿根廷西班牙语 tango,探戈，最终可能来自非洲某土著语言。

tango (n.)

syncopated ballroom dance, 1913 (the year it became a rage in Britain and America), from Argentine Spanish tango, originally the name of an African-American drum dance, probably from a Niger-Congo language (compare Ibibio tamgu "to dance"). Phrase it takes two to tango was a song title from 1952. As a verb from 1913. Related: Tangoed.

It is hardly a year ago since the Tango reached this country from South America by way of Paris. It was at first no more than a music-hall freak. But some of those mysterious people who inspire new social fashions were attracted by its sinuous movements and the strange backward kick, and this year it made its way into private houses as well as public ball rooms. [The Living Age, Dec. 13, 1913]

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"I need not describe the various horrors of American and South American negroid origin. I would only ask hostesses to let one know what houses to avoid by indicating in some way on their invitation cards whether the 'turkey-trot,' the 'Boston' (the beginner of the evil), and the 'tango' will be permitted." [quoted in "Current Opinion," October 1913, as from a letter to the London Times]

1. Arthur Murray taught the foxtrot, the tango and the waltz.

阿瑟·默里教狐步舞、探戈和华尔兹。

2. She describes the tango as a very sexy dance.

她把探戈描述为一种非常性感的舞蹈。

3. They can rock and roll, they can tango, but they can't bop.

他们会跳摇滚，会跳探戈，就是不会跳博普舞。

4. A tango was playing on the jukebox.

点唱机播放着一首探戈舞曲。

5. Let's sit this one out, shall we? I'm afraid I tango very badly.

咱们不跳这个舞好 吗 ?我怕我的探戈舞跳得太糟.