| 词汇 | celebration |
| 释义 | celebration noun uk /ˌsel.əˈbreɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌsel.əˈbreɪ.ʃən/ B1[ C ] a special social event, such as a party, when you celebrate something: 庆祝活动;庆祝会 There were lively New Year celebrations all over town.全城到处是喜迎新年的活动。 call for a celebrationSuch good news calls for (= deserves) a celebration!这样的好消息可喜可贺！ [ U ] the act of celebrating something: 庆祝，庆贺；祝贺 in celebration ofLet's buy some champagne in celebration of her safe arrival.我们买点香槟酒庆祝她平安到达吧。 [ C ] an act of dancing, shouting, etc., to show that you are happy after you have succeeded at something: He likes to get his teammates excited with his theatrical celebrations. The referee penalized the wide receiver because his touchdown celebration was excessive. If ever there was a cause for celebration, this peace treaty was it.这项和平条约确实值得庆祝。 They planned a special celebration for her homecoming.他们为她回到家乡安排了一个特别的庆祝仪式。 A celebration is held for the boy at the age when he is considered to have reached manhood.男孩到了公认为已届成年的年龄时，人们会为他举行一个庆祝仪式。 The ending of the war is not a cause for celebration, but rather for regret that it ever happened.战争的结束并没有什么好庆祝的，恰恰相反，人们倒是应该为战争的爆发而感到痛惜。 This calls for a celebration!这值得庆祝一下！ Celebrations, parties & special occasions afterparty April Fool's Day baby shower bachelor party backslapping dinner dinner dance Easter egg hunt fayre feast masked ball masquerade mela Mother's Day New Year's Eve tea party trick-or-treating Valentine's Day wassail wassailer You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Celebrating & entertaining Feeling pleasure and happiness Pleasure and happiness Examples of celebrationcelebration Popes and kings, however, wanted this glory as a backdrop to their processions and celebrations, to impress the people and provide the required spectacle. Secondly, families took an active part in celebrations for the nuns' entrance into religious life and profession. The structure and form of the celebrations sought to bind the city's political leaders together with local leaders in a joint enterprise. All these events naturally led to large and small celebrations attended by participants and their supporters. Often the local groups sang, danced and cooked for celebratory functions, in welcoming official guests of local dignitaries or in political celebrations. Modest celebrations were also often cobbled together for first-born children. In this he acts as a brake on multiculturalist celebrations of difference by refusing to accept the performance of his ethnicity as inevitable. Traditional celebrations honor individual heroism, not the mere act of survival in a modern war. She oversees the cooking, the entertaining of female guests, the servants' lives and marriages, the haveli celebrations, and even the affairs of the junior relatives. Samogon was certainly used as a medium of exchange, as well as for customary celebrations. The naval celebrations of this era were a central medium in the active promotion of peacetime service reputations. The lessons are given a theatrical touch, explained as a story-telling style, not otherwise familiar in celebrations of the liturgy. First, these celebrations saw the transposition of the chants and readings of the most private of canonical hours to an eminently public venue. Even here, there is no surviving indication whether the celebrations were directly associated with the final religious confirmation of the marriage. Undine claims her faithless lover during his wedding celebrations. See all examples of celebration 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. Collocations withcelebrationcelebrationThese are words often used in combination with celebration. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. annual celebration He gained local notice when he persuaded his company to forgo the customary liquor at their annualcelebration. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. birthday celebration Each year a birthdaycelebration concert is held in his honor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. centennial celebration The awarding of this medal took place only once by design, as it was linked to a centennialcelebration event. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. See all collocations with celebration |
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