单词 | parade |
释义 | pa·rade I. 1. a. < make an important parade of doing nothing — James Hilton > < could not be restrained from making rather an ostentatious parade of his liberality — Charles Dickens > < wanted to find people as they always were, not on parade — Margaret Biddle > < from early spring to late fall there is a constant parade of gorgeous color — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < puts human flummery and pretentiousness on parade in a crowded gallery of portraits — C.J. Rolo > b. < a radio program parade > < the book … is a pleasant parade of the things he has enjoyed most — Saturday Review > < a parade of popular songs > c. Britain 2. a. b. c. 3. a. < a parade of witness testified > < a parade of more outstanding singers than could possibly be cast in a single opera — Miles Kastendieck > b. < a parade of firemen > < a circus parade > < a boat parade > c. < a parade of linament bottles along the chimneypiece — Elizabeth Bowen > < a parade of long-distance pipelines — Gardiner Symonds > < slash pockets at the hips, from which a parade of box pleats starts around the back — Lois Long > < discriminative sensing of the down-the-years parade of American attitudes — C.L.Carmer > d. < joined the propaganda parade — J.B.Reston > < join the UN parade in accepting the Indian plan — Mark Feer > 4. 5. a. b. < there have been meets … at various places — annual parades — R.E.Meyer > Synonyms: see display II. transitive verb 1. 2. < veiled female had been parading the docks — T.B.Costain > 3. < the ugly woman does not parade herself vainly — Irish Digest > < lavish floats are paraded up and down the river — Green Peyton > < politicians … have paraded their artistic incapacity as a virtue — Times Literary Supplement > < ladies and gentlemen … paraded their fine manners, wit, and charm — H.J.Muller > intransitive verb 1. a. < this army of penguins would parade along the beach — H.A.Chippendale > < mob of thousands recently paraded through Mustafa Kamal Square in Cairo — H.C. Atyeo > < freighters parade in and out of the Capes — American Guide Series: Virginia > b. 2. a. < parade beneath the balcony — Elizabeth Bowen > < down on the wharf the sentry paraded stiffly — K.M.Dodson > b. < ladies wore black in the morning but in the afternoon paraded in dashing silk gowns — C.L. Jones > 3. a. < drove so well, so quietly, without making any disturbance, without parading to her — Jane Austen > b. < myths which parade as modern science — M.R.Cohen > < dogmatism parading as enlightenment — Eric Partridge > Synonyms: see show III. |
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