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carnival n.嘉年华会；狂欢节 (1) 我们去巴西参加他们的嘉年华会吧。(2) 嘉年华会的最后一天总是最为疯狂。(3) 我在马德里的时候正赶上狂欢节。(4) 我们这条街的居民每年举行一次狂欢会。(5) 他擅长布置橱窗，但他们向他征求狂欢节彩车时的意见时，他实在得好好考虑一下。 The word carnival originally referred to a public festival involving general merriment and feasting, often taking place on the street and frequently associated with a religious holiday. Later the word’s meaning broadened to refer to a traveling show that offers similar activities, like a winter carnival or a fair. Nowadays the word carnival is also used figuratively to refer to something characterized by raucous disorder. If, for example, your coworkers ended up heckling your CEO at a company meeting, you could describe the scene as a carnival (although you would most likely NOT see any cotton candy in the board room).

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英 ['kɑːnɪvl] 美 ['kɑːrnɪvl] (1) Let's go to Brazil and join their Carnival.(2) The last day of the carnival is always the craziest .(3) While I was in Madrid there was a carnival.(4) Our street puts on a carnival every year.(5) He's good at dressing shop windows but he really had to put his thinking cap on when they asked him for an idea for a carnival float. If you have an annual festival going on in your neighborhood that involves live music, street vendors, and games, you could call that a carnival. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]狂欢节；嘉年华会 A carnival is a public festival during which people play music and sometimes dance in the streets. 2[N-COUNT 可数名词]流动游乐场；嘉年华 A carnival is a travelling show which is held in a park or field and at which there are machines to ride on, entertainments, and games.   [AM 美]in BRIT, use 英国英语用 funfair3[N-COUNT 可数名词]激动人心的事物的组合；五彩斑斓；八音齐奏 A carnival of something such as colours or sounds is a bright or exciting mixture of them.   [N of n]  [LITERARY 文]The avenues lined with jacaranda trees burst into a carnival of purple.大街的两旁种着蓝花楹，绽放的花朵汇成一片紫色的海洋。

英语单词	carnival
英美音标	英 ['kɑːnɪvl] 美 ['kɑːrnɪvl]
中文释义	n.嘉年华会；狂欢节
英语例句	(1) Let's go to Brazil and join their Carnival. (2) The last day of the carnival is always the craziest . (3) While I was in Madrid there was a carnival. (4) Our street puts on a carnival every year. (5) He's good at dressing shop windows but he really had to put his thinking cap on when they asked him for an idea for a carnival float.
中文例句	(1) 我们去巴西参加他们的嘉年华会吧。 (2) 嘉年华会的最后一天总是最为疯狂。 (3) 我在马德里的时候正赶上狂欢节。 (4) 我们这条街的居民每年举行一次狂欢会。 (5) 他擅长布置橱窗，但他们向他征求狂欢节彩车时的意见时，他实在得好好考虑一下。
vocabulary简明	If you have an annual festival going on in your neighborhood that involves live music, street vendors, and games, you could call that a carnival.
vocabulary扩展	The word carnival originally referred to a public festival involving general merriment and feasting, often taking place on the street and frequently associated with a religious holiday. Later the word’s meaning broadened to refer to a traveling show that offers similar activities, like a winter carnival or a fair. Nowadays the word carnival is also used figuratively to refer to something characterized by raucous disorder. If, for example, your coworkers ended up heckling your CEO at a company meeting, you could describe the scene as a carnival (although you would most likely NOT see any cotton candy in the board room).
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]狂欢节；嘉年华会 A carnival is a public festival during which people play music and sometimes dance in the streets. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]流动游乐场；嘉年华 A carnival is a travelling show which is held in a park or field and at which there are machines to ride on, entertainments, and games. [AM 美] in BRIT, use 英国英语用 funfair 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]激动人心的事物的组合；五彩斑斓；八音齐奏 A carnival of something such as colours or sounds is a bright or exciting mixture of them. [N of n] [LITERARY 文] The avenues lined with jacaranda trees burst into a carnival of purple. 大街的两旁种着蓝花楹，绽放的花朵汇成一片紫色的海洋。

Carnival Street Festival N Count 可数名词 Word Public Refer