pageant

释义

• n. 盛会；游行；虚饰；露天表演

词源

pageant (n.)

late 14c., "play in a cycle of mystery plays," from Medieval Latin pagina, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin pagina "page of a book" (see page (n.1)) on notion of "manuscript" of a play. But an early sense in Middle English also was "stage or scene of a play" (late 14c.) and Klein says a sense of Latin pagina was "movable scaffold" (probably from the etymological sense of "stake"). With excrescent -t as in ancient (adj.). Generalized sense of "showy parade, spectacle" is first attested 1805, though this notion is found in pageantry (1650s).

例句

• 1. Rain chilled the glittering pageant. 雨使华丽的庆典大为逊色.
• 2. Our pageant represented scenes from history. 我们的露天历史剧上演一幕幕的历史事件.
• 3. The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern. 游行盛典将会是古老与现代的奇特融合。
• 4. In August 1968 women held a demonstration at the Miss America Beauty Pageant. 1968年8月，妇女在美国小姐选美大赛举行了游行示威。
• 5. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama. 在我看来,一年四季的绚丽景色犹如一出无尽的动人的戏剧.