英语单词 | reveler |
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英美音标 | 英 ['revlə] 美 ['revlə] |
中文释义 | n.摆设酒宴者;饮酒狂欢者 =reveller. |
vocabulary简明 | If you're a reveler, you're celebrating something or noisily enjoying yourself. A lively birthday party is full of revelers. |
vocabulary扩展 | You're most likely to see revelers during a festive occasion, like a block party or a family reunion at a roller rink. A reveler is easy to spot — she's probably laughing or talking loudly. Reveler comes from the verb revel, "to enjoy one's self in a noisy way," from the Old French reveler, also spelled rebeller, "be disorderly, make merry, or be riotous." Reveler shares a Latin root with the word rebel. |
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