2N-COUNT 舞蹈;舞步 A dance is a particular series of graceful movements of your body and feet, which you usually do in time to music. 舞蹈;舞步
Sometimes the people doing this dance hold brightly colored scarves.
有时跳这种舞的人会手拿色彩鲜艳的丝巾。
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。
3V-RECIP (与…)跳舞;共舞 When you dance with someone, the two of you take part in a dance together, as partners. You can also say that two people dance. (与…)跳舞;共舞
It's a terrible thing when nobody wants to dance with you. [VERB + with]
没有人想和你跳舞是一件很糟糕的事情。
Shall we dance?. [VERB]
我们跳支舞好吗?
He asked her to dance. [VERB]
他邀请她跳舞。
Dance is also a noun.
Come and have a dance with me.
来和我跳支舞吧。
4N-COUNT 舞会 A dance is a social event where people dance with each other. 舞会
She often went to parties and dances at Littlecote.
8VERB 跳动;晃动 If you say that something dances, you mean that it moves about, or seems to move about, lightly and quickly. 跳动;晃动 [literary]
Light danced on the surface of the water. [VERB adv./prep.]
灯光在水面上摇曳。
She tried to read it more slowly and carefully, but the words danced and dissolved before her eyes. [VERB adv./prep.]
她试图读得更慢更仔细一些,但那些字却在她眼前跳动而变得模糊起来。
9PHRASE [VERB inflects]使…疲于奔波;使…白忙一场;给…造成许多麻烦 If someone leads you a merry dance, they make you do things over a long period of time which cause you problems and do not benefit you in any way. 使…疲于奔波;使…白忙一场;给…造成许多麻烦 [British, old-fashioned]
10 to dance to someone'stune→see: tune to make a song and dance about→see: song and dance
Quotations
You should make a point of trying everything once, excepting incest and folk-dancingArnold BaxFarewell My Youth
There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common; they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the viciousAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic roundJohn MiltonComus
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itselfHavelock EllisThe Dance of Life
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feetLord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage
No sober man dances, unless he happens to be madCiceroPro Murena