Orgy
['ɔːdʒɪ] or ['ɔrdʒi]
解释:
(noun.) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
(noun.) secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity.
(noun.) any act of immoderate indulgence; 'an orgy of shopping'; 'an emotional binge'; 'a splurge of spending'.
编辑:威尔玛--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
校对:维多利亚
解释:
n. any drunken or riotous rite or revelry esp. by night—(rare) Orge:—pl. Or′gies riotous secret rites observed in the worship of Bacchus.—v.i. Orge to indulge in riotous jollity.—n. Or′giast.—adjs. Orgias′tic Or′gic.
编辑:拉维恩
例句:
- He thought his brother was not sober, and had been out all night on some orgy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Mr. Philander dropped the professor's arm, and broke into a mad orgy of speed that would have done credit to any varsity track team. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- This favoured tavern, sacred to the evening orgies of Mr. Lowten and his companions, was what ordinary people would designate a public-house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
录入:罗宾逊