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Sense Latin Pageant N Pagina Notion Pædʒənt N.壮观的游行;露天历史剧

单词 pageant
音标 ['pædʒənt]
解释 n.壮观的游行;露天历史剧
红宝书 【英】 n. 壮观的游行(a spectacular exhibition)
【记】 分割记忆:page(页)+ ant(蚂蚁), 一页蚂蚁→游行_
【例】 There was one contestant from each state at the beauty pageant.
字源 pageant (n.)
late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," from Medieval Latin pagina, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin pagina "page of a book" (see page (n.1)) on notion of "manuscript" of a play.
But an early sense in Middle English also was "stage or scene of a play" (late 14c.) and Klein says a sense of Latin pagina was "movable scaffold" (probably from the etymological sense of "stake"). With excrescent -t as in ancient (adj.). Generalized sense of "showy parade, spectacle" is first attested 1805, though this notion is found in pageantry (1650s).
不择手段背单词 n. 壮观的游行; 露天历史剧
【记】page页, ant蚂蚁: 蚂蚁爬满了一页一壮观游行
趣味全助记 【记】page + ant 一行蚂蚁在书页上爬,游行;page 书页→载入史册的→壮观的游行或庆典

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