VOA常速英语:Digital Age Survivors, Japan’s Jazz Cafes Still Attract Fans

cater to迎合;为...服务
例句：Those newspapers cater to the lowest tastes.
这些报纸迎合低级趣味。

2. They are known as jazz kissa - short for kissaten - tea or coffee shops.

be known as被认为是
例句：Radio, television, newspapers and magazines are known as the mass media.
广播、电视、报纸和杂志被称为大众传媒。

3. Jazz historian, pianist and Hitotsubashi University professor Michael Molasky says, by the time Eagle opened, the genre in Japan had come to play a more significant role in Japanese society than it did in its country of origin.

play a role in在……扮演一个角色，在某方面起作用
例句：The headmaster plays an important role in the good running of a school.
办好一所学校, 校长起重要作用。

4. At some jazz listening spots these days, cocktails, in addition to coffee and tea, are on the menu.

in addition to除…之外，还……
例句：In addition to French, he has to study Japanese.
除了法语外，他还得学日语。

5. New Dug’s owner, Hozumi Nakadaira, recalls the days when the clientele, mostly university students, would spend hours absorbed in the music.

be absorbed in集中精力做某事
例句：The old man was utterly absorbed in the book.
老人全神贯注地读这本书。

6. Nakadaira estimates there are 500 singers, mostly Japanese women, trying to make a living belting out jazz in English.

make a living赚钱过活
例句：He makes a living by writing.
他靠写作谋生。
belt out拉开嗓门唱;热情演奏
例句：No one can belt out those old songs as she can.
没有人能像她那样高声唱出那些老歌。