英语词汇jazz age的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jazz Age. A coinage of F. Scott Fitzgerald for the era of the 1920s in America, a time dominated by youth and jazz music and marked by frenetic hedonism as well as great achievement. Also known as the Roaring Twenties and the Boom, this ex- travagant era, often treating life as a great party, was depicted in the caricatures of John Held and described in Fitzgerald’s clas- sic fiction: Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), the first use of the phrase Jazz Age; his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby (1925); Flappers and Philosophers (1920); and his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920). Of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald wrote: “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” See lost generation.

词汇	jazz age
词源	Jazz Age. A coinage of F. Scott Fitzgerald for the era of the 1920s in America, a time dominated by youth and jazz music and marked by frenetic hedonism as well as great achievement. Also known as the Roaring Twenties and the Boom, this ex- travagant era, often treating life as a great party, was depicted in the caricatures of John Held and described in Fitzgerald’s clas- sic fiction: Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), the first use of the phrase Jazz Age; his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby (1925); Flappers and Philosophers (1920); and his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920). Of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald wrote: “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” See lost generation.
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