| 词汇 | carnival |
| 释义 | carnival noun uk /ˈkɑː.nɪ.vəl/ us /ˈkɑːr.nə.vəl/ B2[ C or U ] (a special occasion or period of) public enjoyment and entertainment involving wearing unusual clothes, dancing, and eating and drinking, usually held in the streets of a city: 狂欢节;嘉年华会 a Caribbean carnival加勒比海狂欢节 There's a real carnival atmosphere in the streets.街上真是一派狂欢节的气氛。 Andreas Mann/EyeEm/GettyImages [ C ]US(UKfunfair) a place of outside entertainment where there are machines for riding on and games that can be played for prizes露天游乐场，露天游乐会 Oliver Vorspohl/EyeEm/GettyImages [ C ]US(UKfete) a public event, often held outside, where you can take part in competitions and buy small things and food, often organized to collect money for a particular purpose露天游乐筹款会 SolStock/E+/GettyImages Carnival, fairground & circus acrobatics aerialist amusement arcade amusement park big dipper big top coconut shy contortionist custard pie dodgem fairground Ferris wheel juggler juggling loop the loopidiom merry-go-round midway Punch and Judy show trapeze artist unicycle carnival | American Dictionarycarnival noun[ C/U ] us/ˈkɑr·nə·vəl/ a place of outside entertainment where there are machines you can ride on and games that can be played for prizes: [ C ]There’s a carnival in Payson Park this weekend. A carnival is also a time of public enjoyment and entertainment when people wear unusual clothes, dance, and eat and drink, usually in the streets of a city. Examples of carnivalcarnival As in earlier, non-dramatic performances like carnival or festive ritual, the audience came to the theatre expecting a dialogic relationship with the stage performers. As it would appear, nothing is better suited to prevent a revolutionary upheaval than the licensed revolt enacted in carnival. The musicians' use of dynamics underlines the marchers' reflexive awareness of performance, the carnival's undermining of the distinction between outsider and participant. The carnival erased social conventions by rendering them meaningless, and this 'decontextualization' relieved individuals from responsibility for their actions. Years indicate the carnival season; autumn productions are counted with the following carnival. Welcome to the carnival of forgetting where no one need fear losing face because we're all wilfully lost and faceless anyway. 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. The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last. The song was so unusual in the carnival-song repertory that it quickly became one of its best-known works. For its users, the beach amounted to a summer-long carnival and a democratic experience of sharing the public domain. We must remember, however, that carnival was a time of legitimate illegitimacy. Carnival was a holiday from the university, and they often sponsored performances at carnival. It was, for example, a major feature of much medieval pageantry, and it characterizes the modern carnival that involves performance. Carnival provided village communities with the opportunity to air all the latent antagonisms, misdeeds, and other problems undermining their sense of unity. The fair consisted of show competition, demonstration of agricultural animals and produce, carnival activities, and over 100 vendors of food and drink. See all examples of carnival 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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