| 单词 | red carpet |
| 释义 | red carpet (once / 8295 pages) nadj A red carpet is a traditional way to honor someone who's a celebrity or an otherwise distinguished person. Before the Oscars ceremony, people huddle around the red carpet to check out the stars in their fancy tuxes and gowns. Red carpet is also an adjective meaning "hospitable" or "ceremonious:" "Let's give Grandma the red carpet treatment when she visits!" Hotels often use this term as well: "We roll out the red carpet for our guests." Literal red carpets are commonly used at movie premieres, awards ceremonies, and during the arrival of visiting queens, prime ministers, popes, and other dignitaries. WORD FAMILYred carpet: red carpets USAGE EXAMPLESOutside the New York Film Festival, the writer-director Mike Mills kept freezing up on the red carpet. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “I remembered seeing the girls on the red carpet: elegant, smiling, fresh, happy,” Mr. Soria said. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) It’s time London rolled up the red carpet. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on Hyper carpet, carpeting, rug floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) 2adj special treatment or hospitality Syn red-carpet uncommon not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind |
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