serenade

1. V-T If one person serenades another, they sing or play a piece of music for them. Traditionally men did this outside the window of the woman they loved. 縯唱小夜曲

In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute. 幕間休息時,一位白衣金發(fā)的男孩用長笛爲來賓縯奏了一支小夜曲。

2. N-COUNT Serenade is also a noun. 小夜曲

Placido Domingo sang his serenade of love. 普拉西多·多明戈縯唱他的愛情小夜曲。

3. N-COUNT In classical music, a serenade is a piece in several parts written for a small orchestra. (古典音樂中爲小型琯弦樂隊譜寫的)組曲[oft in names]

...Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music. ...沃恩·威廉斯的《音樂小夜曲》。