| 词汇 | festivity |
| 释义 | festivity noun uk /fesˈtɪv.ə.ti/ us /fesˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/ festivities[ plural ] the parties, meals, and other social activities with which people celebrate a special occasion: 庆祝活动 join the festivitiesCome in and join the festivities!进来参加庆祝活动吧！ [ U ] a situation in which people are happy and celebrating欢庆;欢乐 Celebrations, parties & special occasions afterparty April Fool's Day baby shower bachelor party backslapping Day of the Dead dinner dinner dance Easter egg hunt fayre masked ball masquerade mela Mother's Day New Year's Eve tea party trick-or-treating Valentine's Day wassail wassailer Examples of festivityfestivity The festivities lasted four days and were attended by the royal embassy and various nobles and prelates from near and far. While the theatre was to be the bastion of progress, traditional popular festivities such as carnival with its subversive potential for social inversion, were curbed. Perhaps more importantly, however, people walking from the square to the tower gate could view festivities taking place in the great hall. Gone were the regimental marching bands, displays with flags, cavalry formations, carriages of notables, festivities for the monarch's birthday and for royal visits. Appropriate departure festivities were arranged, and several thousand individuals were reported to have attended them. Effectively the site, surrounded by vast 'reopened' space, became the focal point for spontaneous gathering and festivities. The scenarios of the festivities grew more elaborate over the years, involving performances created specifically for the occasion. The town's newspapers had been abuzz with details of the plans and preparations for the celebration in the months leading up to the festivities. The festivities from the street swell into the open doors and soon what used to be a line of circulation becomes a bellyful. In doing so, the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the festivities, and the cultural traditions and political intricacies surrounding them are graphically recreated. Another aspect that constantly appeared in festivities was light, manifested in a great variety of forms like torches, bon®res and ®reworks. The fair, which was widely advertised in the surrounding parishes, involved two days of festivities including cricket, dandy horse races, a climbing pole, and races for men, women and children. In many cases, these festivities were the expression of the town's feelings with regard to national events, like great military victories or births and marriages inside the royal family. The greatest share of mobile communication represents calls to immediate relatives, and relates to common plans and festivities, or simply assures the communication partners of their mutual attachment. To its own, the parish could be generous enough : the rogationtide festivities of 1746, bringing the parish together in an atmosphere of carnival and celebration, cost £6 10s. See all examples of festivity These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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