carnival

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/|[ˈkɑːnɪvl̩]    美 /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/|[ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩]|/ˈkaːnɪvəl/|[ˈkaːnɪvl̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
    — Carnival of Brazil
  2. A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
    — Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  3. A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English. US
    — We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
  4. A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
    — The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order.
  5. A gaudily chaotic situation. figuratively
    — a carnival of idiocy
动词 v.
  1. To participate in a carnival. informal,rare
  2. To move about playfully or wildly. literary
    — The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi.

词形变化

carnivals plural carnaval alternative,obsolete carnivals present,singular,third-person carnivaling US,participle,present carnivalling UK,participle,present carnivaled US,participle,past carnivaled US,past carnivalled UK,participle,past carnivalled UK,past carnaval alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
blog carnival carnivalesque carnival glass carnivalic carnivalistic carnivalize carnivallike carny noncarnival precarnival surf carnival winter carnival
并列词
mardi gras

词源

词源 1
From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval.
词源 2
From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval.
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