喜樂美語

A model that works well: a long table loaded with more food than anyone needs, and people gathered round it because the day itself is worth marking. Two things travel together in this word — abundance (far more than enough) and occasion (a day set apart). Different senses lean on different halves: the religious feast day keeps the occasion, feasting on chips keeps only the abundance and the pleasure.

一張長桌上擺著遠超過需要的食物，一群人圍著坐下來，因為這一天本身值得被記住。這個字裡有兩樣東西一起走：一是「豐盛」——多到吃不完；二是「時機」——這是特別被劃出來的一天。後面每個意思都是偏向其中一半：宗教節日保留了「特別的日子」那一半，而 feast on chips 只留下「豐盛加上盡情享受」那一半，跟慶祝完全無關。

From the word’s history

From Latin festum "holiday, festival", via Old French feste — the root names the holy day first; the huge meal is what people did on it.

字源是拉丁文 festum（節慶、假日），經過古法文 feste 進入英文——注意順序：這個字根本來指的是「那個特別的日子」，大餐是人們在那天做的事。這解釋了為什麼 feast 到今天還同時能指宗教節日和一頓大餐；也解釋了它跟 festival、festive 是同一家人。

Wiktionary, entry "feast" (Middle English feeste < Old French feste < Late Latin festa, plural of Latin festum "holiday, festival")

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同家族的字

n複數 feasts

v過去式 feasted過去分詞 feasted-ing feasting三單 feasts

意思相反

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原始詞典資料9 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。

Feastname

  • 1

    A surname from Middle English.

  • 2

    A Baháʼí community meeting; occuring every nineteen days.

feastnoun詞源 1/ˈfiːst/

  • 1

    A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

    • The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
    • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
  • 2

    A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

    • We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
  • 3

    Something delightful and satisfying.

    • It was a feast for the eyes.
    • Lenin took the view, which is still treated as a a dogma by the Communist movement, that revisionism came into being as an ideology reflecting the interests of the aristocracy of the working class, whom the bourgeoisie permitted to enjoy the 'left-overs' of their feast of prosperity.

feastverb詞源 2/ˈfiːst/

  • 1

    To partake in a feast, or large meal.

    • I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
  • 2

    To dwell upon (something) with delight.

    • With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
  • 3

    To hold a feast in honor of (someone).

    • He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
    • His ancestor, he said, had been feasted there, when he went forward with the then Lord Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.

    • 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

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