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revelry

/rev-uhl-ree/US // ˈrɛv əl ri //UK // (ˈrɛvəlrɪ) //

狂欢,狂欢节,陶醉,启示

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural rev·el·ries.

    • : reveling; boisterous festivity: Their revelry could be heard across the river.

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Examples

  • The usual revelry was absent, replaced by protective screens and masks, a mostly empty House of Delegates chamber, heightened security protocols and workmanlike bureaucracy.

  • Think of it as Game of Thrones—if you subtract the sex and violence and add drunken revelry and singing.

  • My friends, hurting from a night of rum-infused revelry, opt for Revive.

  • Despite the intoxicated revelry that is an Avicii live show, his songs make few mentions of alcohol or drugs.

  • These days I sometimes fall into a counter-historical revelry in which Lincoln allowed the South to remove itself from the Union.

  • The bloodthirsty Young Turks of Bohane bide their time, waiting in the shadows to shank and supplant their revelry-addled elders.

  • Aristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.

  • But Pujol senior, though wondering where the devil he had fished all that money from, did not waste it in profligate revelry.

  • Turning abruptly to the right, they came upon a door through which there issued sounds of terrible revelry.

  • Not in the wildest days of Eastcheap revelry did it resound in any one key of vinous harmony.

  • His only real playtimes are the festas, when for some hours he indulges in revelry—if, indeed, it be worthy of such a title.