pageant怎么读?

pageant

英 ['pædʒ(ə)nt] 美['pædʒənt]
  • n. 盛会;游行;虚饰;露天表演

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词态变化


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1. 谐音“陪警特”----陪伴在两旁的特警---举行盛大庆典时,肯定得有特警陪护,来维持秩序、保护安全。
2. page => pageant: 原意是“戏剧作品”-----后来发展引申为露天的、盛大的与戏剧有关的表演,进而引申为“ 盛大庆典、盛会、露天表演”。
3. beauty pageant => pageant.

中文词源


pageant 穿古代服装的游行,古装仪式,人生画卷

来自page,页码,书页,-ant,名词后缀。比喻用法。

英文词源


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).

双语例句


1. Rain chilled the glittering pageant.
雨使华丽的庆典大为逊色.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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。

来自辞典例句

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.

来自辞典例句