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firework

/fahyuhr-wurk/US // ˈfaɪərˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈfaɪəˌwɜːk) //

焰火,烟花,焰火晚会,烟花爆竹

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.
    • : fireworks, a pyrotechnic display.a display of violent temper or fierce activity.any spectacular display, especially of wit or of a technical feat by a musician or dancer.

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Examples

  • On Friday, July 4, 1788—a dozen years since the Declaration of Independence—the city celebrated the narrow ratification of the Constitution with parades, fireworks, and speeches.

  • The inside story of how Patrick Mahomes landed with the ChiefsThose fireworks could prove to be prologue.

  • When the House of Delegates opened both of those topics to preliminary debate on Thursday, though, death — not drugs — was the topic that provoked all the partisan fireworks.

  • I was expecting similar fireworks on Saturday morning when I stopped in for a hair cut.

  • Transporting fireworks to the National Mall is difficult even in ordinary circumstances.

  • The Firework siren also reveals that she once prayed to God for, uhh, a new chest.

  • The result is the biggest property bubble in history, which when it pops will sound like a thousand firework accidents.

  • Suffice it to say the whole thing went off sparkling like a firework.

  • The comparison to a bursting firework is inevitable but unworthy.

  • In all Boston there was no firework as wonderful as Sky-High's.

  • On this occasion she carried, besides, a little parachute, ballasted by a firework terminating in a ball with silver rain.

  • Dancing will be interrupted at 8.30, when everyone comes out to look at the firework display.