carnival
外观
參見:Carnival
英語
[编辑]其他寫法
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]借自中古法語 carnaval,來自意大利語 carnevale,可能來自拉丁語短語carnem levāmen (“肉類慰藉”)。其他學者認為應改用拉丁語 carnuālia (“以肉類為主的鄉村盛宴”)或carrus nāvālis (“船車;花車”)。[1]carnaval 的同源對似詞。
發音
[编辑]- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助): /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/、[ˈkɑːnɪvl̩]
- (通用美式) 國際音標(幫助): /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/、[ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩]; /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/ (在不同的羅曼語族國家舉行的大齋期前的節日)
- (澳大利亞) 國際音標(幫助): /ˈkaːnɪvəl/、[ˈkaːnɪvl̩]
名詞
[编辑]carnival (複數 carnivals)
- 大齋期開始前舉行的多個節日之一
- 狂歡節,嘉年華
- 2013年6月7日,David Simpson,“Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly,卷 188, 期 26,頁 36:
- 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.
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- (美國) 移動式遊樂園
- 近義詞:funfair
- We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
- 当他们把移动式游乐园带到镇上时,我们都坐上了旋转木马。
- When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
- 当移动式游乐园来到镇上时,每个人都想买些棉花糖。
- (社會學) 一種暫時允許越界或顛覆社會秩序的情境,源自米哈伊爾·巴赫京的著作
- 2010,Gulnara Karimova,“Jackass, South Park, and 'Everyday' Culture”, in Studies in Popular Culture,卷 33,頁 37:
- 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.
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- (比喻義) 一片混亂的景象
- a carnival of idiocy
- 愚蠢的混乱景象
同類詞彙
[编辑]衍生詞
[编辑]派生詞
[编辑]- → 日語: カーニバル (kānibaru)
動詞
[编辑]carnival (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 carnivals,現在分詞 (美國) carnivaling 或 (英國) carnivalling,簡單過去時和過去分詞 (美國) carnivaled 或 (英國) carnivalled)
- (非正式,罕用) 參加嘉年華
- (書面) 嬉戲或狂野地走動
- 1870 July,“Life in the Mexican Capital”, in The Old Guard,卷 VIII, 號 VII, [New York, N.Y.]: [C. Chauncey Burr & Co.], →ISSN, →OCLC,頁 507:
- 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.
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- 1983,Alan Stratton,The Hunters,London, Sydney, N.S.W.: Futura, →ISBN,頁 161:
- Sitting in the Chevy, Saturday night on Main Street carnivaling around her, she told herself that she understood, that Ross had made a mistake, had pre-arranged this celebration for tonight and thought that his date with her was tomorrow.
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- 2007,Jonny Glynn,The Seven Days of Peter Crumb,New York, N.Y., […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN,頁 210:
- A sudden bright white flash exploded before me. A kaleidoscope of silver lines drawn in rapid succession carnivalled in a blizzard of raging energy.
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來源
[编辑]延伸閱讀
[编辑]- “carnival, v.”,OED Online
,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,launched 2000年
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