1. 1華麗盛會;盛大演出

    An extravaganza is a show that is huge, shiny, and expensive on purpose — the kind where people dress up, the lights are too bright, and nobody is trying to be quiet. A New Year TV special, a big concert with , a fashion show that looks like a circus: those can be extravaganzas. The word itself is a bit of a show. It is not a quiet dinner. Newspapers love it for anything . Though actually, people stretch it: a bakery might call a cake table a chocolate extravaganza, which is just marketing for a lot of cake.

core核心畫面

組成From Italian stravaganza, with its English shape influenced by extravagance.

同家族的字

  • extravagancethe English word that helped shape the spelling of this Italian borrowing

原始詞典資料2 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。

extravaganzanoun/ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/

  • 1

    An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature, or drama, originally associated with Victorian England.

    • The ingenious method was hit upon of dove-tailing extravaganza and pantomime. A long burlesque, the characters in which have nothing to do with the harlequinade, terminates with one of those elaborate and gorgeous displays which have acquired the name of “Transformation Scenes.”
    • It grew out of the Victorian “extravaganza” style, which took serious opera and literature and applied broad comic satire (usually with music) that played to the masses.
  • 2

    An instance of fantastical, unrestrained, lavish, or chaotic behaviour or conduct.

    • The bride had her heart set on a simple wedding, but her parents insisted on a three-hundred-guest extravaganza.
    • I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.

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