| 词汇 | cocktail-party |
| 释义 | cocktail party noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒk.teɪl ˌpɑː.ti/ us /ˈkɑːk.teɪl ˌpɑːr.t̬i/ a formal party with alcoholic drinks, usually in the early evening鸡尾酒会（通常安排在傍晚时分） 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 cocktail party | American Dictionarycocktail party noun[ C ] us/ˈkɑk·teɪl ˌpɑr·t̬i/ a party, usually in the early evening, at which drinks are served Examples of cocktail partycocktail party Just think of the police car waiting outside the "pub", or the private cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have thought that if we could abolish the cocktailparty as a social device, we should make some progress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are often 40 or 50 or 60 people at a cocktailparty in a private home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember some time ago being given a cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us consider the hypothetical case of a person who goes to a cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let her have her tea parties; let her become a habitué of the drawing-room or even of the cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They took over a bar and had a glorified cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That does not sound very much like an invitation to a cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How could you possibly, by any conceivable misconstruction, put an interpretation upon that as meaning an invitation to a cocktailparty? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have said that one of the few benefits we could confer on the future would be if we could abolish the cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The most dangerous period is probably the time of the midday cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first stage is excitement, loss of inhibitions—what we all feel at a cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps this is why the publishers had that cocktailparty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, as at constituency cocktailparty raffles in the past, now and again one's number comes up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was no reference to a cocktailparty; it was quite a different sort of function. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of cocktail party 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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