1. 1很有聖誕氣氛的、充滿聖誕味的

    When something is Christmassy, it feels like Christmas — the look, the smell, the mood, not the calendar date itself. Red and green, lights on a tree, wrapping paper, pine, cinnamon, a jumper with on it: people call all of that Christmassy. A shop in November can already look Christmassy. It is a warm, informal word. Families say it at home; shops love it in ads. You would not put it in a serious report. Older and younger people both use it. There is no common opposite; you just say it does not feel like Christmas.

core核心畫面

組成Christmas + -y. The ending -y means “like” or “full of” (as in rainy). Christmas itself is from Old English Cristes mæsse, “Christ’s mass” — mass was the church service. Christ comes from Greek khrīstós, used for the Hebrew and Aramaic word for “anointed” (Messiah).

同家族的字

  • Christmasthe festival the -y ending is describing
  • ChristmastimeChristmas + time: the season around the day
  • Christianshares Christ, the first half of Christmas

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Christmassyadj/ˈkɹɪsməsi/

  • 1

    Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.

    • It is important to guard against any hint of a generalisation here that 'less Christmassy music' always accompanies a 'less Christmassy sentiment', and indeed Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Christmas' (1974) is proof that the converse is not […]
    • Mark: That looks like a lovely turkey. I'm sorry I flew off the handle a bit. Jeremy: That wasn't very Christmassy. Mark: No, it wasn't. I apologise.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。