| 单词 | spectacle |
| 释义 | spectacle (once / 256 pages) n A spectacle is something you can't believe you are seeing. Get on top of your desk at work in your underpants while playing the kazoo and you're making a spectacle of yourself. The word spectacle comes from the Latin spectaculum meaning "public show," an apt translation because a spectacle, like a public show, is something worth watching. A ballet is a spectacle, or an elaborate production worth watching. Often the word is used to describe something that has a particularly exciting visual element to it — like an acrobatic display or a magic trick. It's something you have to see to really appreciate. WORD FAMILYspectacle: spectacular+/spectacular: spectacularly, spectaculars, unspectacular/unspectacular: unspectacularly USAGE EXAMPLESOrganisers of the event think tens of thousands more watched the spectacle from viewpoints across the north and south bank on Sunday evening. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Football is essentially a spectacle of car crashes. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “I wanted the games to be a spectacle,” Clattenburg said. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape Hyper sight anything that is seen 2n an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale Hypo|Hyper bullfight, corrida a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators naumachia, naumachya naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans novilladaa bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old display, presentation a visual representation of something 3n a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall an embarrassing mistake |
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