field day

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).
    — This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a Brigade Field Day. Did an attack from 10.30 to 2.30, but it wasn't a strenuous one for me as I was told to "become a casualty" soon after the 3000 yard assault began ….
  2. A school day for athletic events. US
  3. A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
  4. A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity. idiomatic
    — They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings.
  5. A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense. idiomatic
    — The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.
  6. A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning. Navy,US,specifically

词形变化

field days plural

词汇关系

相关词
open field

词源

Some postulate the idiomatic usage is derived from the "parade day" military use. A parade is much easier than the soldiers’ usual drilling and intense exercise.
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