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goings-on

/goh-ingz-on, awn/US // ˈgoʊ ɪŋzˈɒn, ˈɔn //

活动情况,活动,活动内容,活动信息

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism: We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.
    • : happenings; events: The American newspaper kept her in touch with the goings-on back home.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intransaction

Examples

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.

  • It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • One of the first out-goings of admiration towards form is the child's praise of "tiny" things.

  • Here are pretty goings on—a pinch of your snuff, Perker, my boy—never were such times, eh?

  • I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

  • Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.

  • Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.