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luau

/loo-ou, loo-ou/US // luˈaʊ, ˈlu aʊ //UK // (luːˈaʊ, ˈluːaʊ) //

宴会,宴会厅,派对,烤肉

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a feast of Hawaiian food, usually held outdoors and usually accompanied by Hawaiian entertainment.
    • : a cooked dish of taro leaves, usually prepared with coconut cream and octopus or chicken.

Examples

  • Journalists got their revenge a month later by sending Gibbs into a dunk tank at a White House luau.

  • Around midnight, she and her husband Lennie Hayton dropped by the Luau, a faux-Polynesian restaurant in Beverly Hills.

  • But the Luau incident gave her a sobering look at the truth.

  • While police led him to the door, Hayton rushed Horne out of the Luau, then home to the Ambassador.

  • Here it takes a tropical twist, with chunks of sweet pineapple, so it's right at home at a luau.

  • Hospitable and liberal as he is in his daily life, when the Hawaiian invites his friends to a luau he expects them to pay.

  • "Luau is the Hawaiian name for feast," Mrs. Beaumont explained.

  • It will be a twenty-five cent, or a fifty cent, or a dollar luau.

  • The Tahitian "native" feast does not differ in any salient particulars from the often-described Hawaiian luau.

  • The pupil ate the luau, the teacher placed the package of salt on the altar, and the service was complete.