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词汇释义
groove  /gruːv/  TEM4 TEM8  GRE

1. noun, A groove is a deep line cut into a surface. 沟，槽，辙

2. noun, In popular music, a groove is a rhythm. 流行音乐的节奏

外刊例句
1. The improvised, relaxed, and lighten hearted jam session turned out to be just what the singer needed to find his groove.(The Guardian - Sport)


2. Dominique Morisseau wrote the celebrated Detroit '67, a play where Motown groove is juxtaposed with the pent-up anger of family and city.（The Guardian - Books）


3. Norwich could find their passing groove only intermittently but Russell Martin would have shot them into the lead in the 15th minute after receiving a corner from Nathan Redmond if Anderson had not been perfectly placed to whack the defender's 16-yard drive off the line.
(The Guardian - Sport)


4. For two bars he maintains his previous beat; in the third he delays a snare hit, agitating the groove slightly; and in the fourth he leaves the first beat empty, following up with a brief syncopated pattern that culminates in an unexpectedly early cymbal crash, heralding the band's re-entry".Amen, Brother" lay dormant for almost two decades.(The Economist)


5. Hitachi has a prototype chip that fits into the groove of a thumb-print.(The Economist)


6. One results from the fact that the stylus exerts a frictional force that is tangential to the groove.(The Economist)


7. Ailing premier, rocky government Romano Prodi, a desperate integrationist Reprints Related items Turkey: Ailing premier, rocky governmentMay 23rd 2002The negotiations seem stuck in the same old groove.(The Economist)


8. Its ditty, "We Don't Wanna Put In", was deemed to be a swipe at Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, whose "negative move" was allegedly "killin' the groove".(The Economis）

词汇搭配
deep, shallow | narrow, wide groove
carve, cut, make groove
groove in

词汇来源
c. 1400, "cave; mine; pit dug in the earth" (late 13c. in place names), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse grod "pit," or from Middle Dutch groeve "furrow, ditch" (Modern Dutch groef), both from Proto-Germanic *grobo (source also of Old Norse grof "brook, river bed," Old High German gruoba "ditch," German Grube "a pit, hole, ditch, grave," Gothic groba "pit, cave," Old English græf "ditch, grave"), from PIE root *ghrebh- (2) "to dig, bury, scratch" (see grave (n.)). Sense of "long, narrow channel or furrow," especially as cut by a tool, is 1650s. Meaning "spiral cut in a phonograph record" is from 1902. Figurative sense of "routine" is from 1842, often deprecatory at first, "a rut."

近义词
channel, furrow, rut, trench, indentation
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