circuses

英 [ˈsɜːkəsɪz]

美 [ˈsɜrkəsəz]

n.  马戏团; 马戏表演(常在大帐篷里进行); 引人注意的人(或事); 热闹场面
circus的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 马戏团
  Acircusis a group that consists of clowns, acrobats, and animals which travels around to different places and performs shows.
  1. My real ambition was to work in a circus.
     我的真正理想是在马戏团工作。
  2. ...circus performers.
     马戏团演员
  3. The circusis the show performed by these people.
     马戏；马戏(团)表演
  4. My dad took me to the circus.
     我爸爸带我去看马戏。
• N-SING 闹哄哄的人群;架势很大的活动
  If you describe a group of people or an event as acircus, you disapprove of them because they attract a lot of attention but do not achieve anything useful.
  1. It could well turn into some kind of a media circus.
     这很可能会演变成媒体的一场闹剧。
  2. ...the travelling circus of political journalists.
     四处奔走的一群政治记者
• N-IN-NAMES (有时用于街道名称)环形路，环形广场，环形交叉口
  Circusis sometimes used as part of the name of a street which goes in a circle.
  1. ...Piccadilly Circus.
     皮卡迪利广场

双语例句

• She had turned my suggestion that she use to work in one of the three most famous circuses in the worldsintosan insult against Moeller.
  我的提问是暗指她曾在马戏团工作过。因为巴纳姆、比埃利、瑞凌兄弟是三个有名的马戏团。
• Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos.
  我们中的大部分人在吃肉，穿皮革，去马戏团和动物园的环境中长大。
• The Roman Emperors kept the common people content with bread and circuses.
  罗马帝国始终使老百姓满足于面包和马戏。
• Torres said because she opposes exhibiting animals in circuses, she decided to keep her shelter closed from the public.
  Torres说，因为她反对在马戏团里展出动物，因此她的庇护所不对公众开放。
• The Council plans to ban circuses with per-forming animals.
  委员会打算禁止使用动物表演的马戏团。
• I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in WASTING it on them.
  如果没有别的办法，在马戏团上面花点儿钱，这我并不反对，不过也不必为了这一些，把钱浪费掉啊。
• Circuses are alluring both to children and to adults.
  马戏既吸引小孩，也吸引大人。
• Tigers jumping through flames, horses rearing elegantly and elephants standing on their hind legs-animals have played a large role in Mexican circuses for generations.
  老虎跳火圈，马群腾立表演，大象后腿站立多年来，这些动物们在墨西哥马戏团的表演中发挥了巨大的作用。
• They did not give the people bread, but they did give them circuses.
  他们不给人民饭吃，却给马戏看。
• When it comes to management challenges, fish fingers and circuses are at opposite extremes: one product is the acme of industrialised food processing, the other the ultimate expression of human creativity and energy.
  谈到管理上的挑战，炸鱼条和马戏表演是两个相反极端：一个是工业化食品加工的极致，另一个是人类创造力和能量的终极表达。