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viva

/vee-vuh; Italian, Spanish vee-vah/US // ˈvi və; Italian, Spanish ˈvi vɑ //UK // (ˈviːvə) //

万岁,万寿无疆,万万岁

Definitions

interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : Italian, Spanish.: Viva Zapata!
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a shout of “viva.”

Examples

  • The inmates of FX consider Viva to be effete, soft and unserious.

  • Viva, for their part, consider FXers to be poor and fanatical.

  • Conditions at the neighboring camp—back to Colditz again—are the subject of lively dinner-table speculation at both FX and Viva.

  • It will also be the first video Corbijn has directed since 2008, when he made “Viva la Vida” with Coldplay.

  • Revelers took to the streets in the national capital to chant “Viva el Papa!”

  • He believed in the value of viva voce discussion, and discouraged all unnecessary inter-departmental correspondence.

  • Here, too, elections were held viva voce under the beeches, at the foot of the wooded spur now known as Imboden Hill.

  • When all had refreshed themselves with a glass of that strengthening cordial, a unanimous and solemn cry of "Viva l'Italia!"

  • The controversy of the vis viva was what was the proper definition of the measure of force.

  • In the debate of the vis viva, it was assumed that in the mutual action of bodies the whole effect of the force is unchanged.