Revel
['rev(ə)l] or ['rɛvl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) unrestrained merrymaking.
(verb.) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; 'The members of the wedding party made merry all night'; 'Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!'.
校對:瓦珥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) See Reveal.
(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
(v. t.) To draw back; to retract.
卡洛整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Carousal, REVELRY.
v. n. [1]. Carouse, tipple, riot, make merry, plunge into dissipation.[2]. Indulge, luxuriate, wanton.
整理:米莉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Carouse, feast, banquet, luxuriate, wallow
ANT:Fast, abstain, nauseate
整理:露丝
解釋/意思:
v.i. to feast in a riotous or noisy manner: to carouse.—v.i. to draw back:—pr.p. rev′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. rev′elled.—n. a riotous feast: carousal: a kind of dance: a wake.—ns. Rev′el-coil Rev′el-dash (obs.) a wild revel; Rev′eller one who takes part in carousals: a low liver; Rev′el-mas′ter the director of Christmas revels: the lord of misrule; Rev′elment; Rev′el-rout lawless revelry; Rev′elry riotous or noisy festivity.
杰弗里整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Thomasin noticed all these, and was delighted that the May revel was to be so near. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I've always longed for lots of boys, and never had enough, now I can fill the house full and revel in the little dears to my heart's content. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Me loves Parpar, said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Long years had passed since he saw it last, since he and George, as young men, had enjoyed many a feast, and held many a revel there. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Yes, positively revel in. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Then plunging his hands and head into the fountain, he washed from them all marks of the midnight revel. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The two gentlemen undressed leisurely on the bank, Maurice making fun of the Greek as he revelled in his favorite element. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Edison revelled in the opportunity for study and experiment given him by his long hours of freedom in the daytime, but needed sleep, just as any healthy youth does. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He could see in me nothing Christian: like many other Protestants, I revelled in the pride and self-will of paganism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He felt his power and revelled in it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- How Mrs. Washington White revelled in it! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Rainy days I spend in the Louvre, revelling in pictures. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I don't think either summer or harvest, or winter moon, will ever shine on their revels more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Young Bedwin Sands, then an elegant dandy and Eastern traveller, was manager of the revels. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The big chamber was the scene of many innocent revels. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their revels. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Here endeth my experience of the celebrated Turkish bath, and here also endeth my dream of the bliss the mortal revels in who passes through it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
編輯:思朋斯