Symposium
[sɪm'pəʊzɪəm] or [sɪm'pozɪəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.
奥罗拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
(n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
錄入:玛格
解釋/意思:
n. a drinking together: a banquet with philosophic conversation: a merry feast.—adjs. Sympō′siac Sympō′sial.—ns. Sym-pō′siarch the master of the feast a toast-master; Sympō′siast one who takes part in a symposium.
欧文整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Neither here nor in the Phaedrus or Symposium, nor yet in the Philebus or Sophist, does he give any clear explanation of his meaning. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She took them with her one night to a select symposium, held in honor of several celebrities. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Nothing very dreadful, he replied, laughing, I only saw a symposium of women, and felt like Clodius surveying the mysteries of the Bona Dea. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
整理:贾丝廷