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单词 celebration
释义
celebration
noun
uk
/ˌsel.əˈbreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsel.əˈbreɪ.ʃən/
B1[C]
aspecialsocialevent, such as aparty, when youcelebratesomething:
庆祝活动；庆祝会
There werelivelyNewYearcelebrations all overtown.全城到处是喜迎新年的活动。
Such goodnewscallsfor(=deserves)a celebration!这样的好消息可喜可贺！
[U]
theactofcelebratingsomething:
庆祝，庆贺；祝贺
Let'sbuysomechampagneincelebrationofhersafearrival.我们买点香槟酒庆祝她平安到达吧。
More examples
  • Ifeverthere was acausefor celebration, thispeacetreatywas it.
  • Theyplannedaspecialcelebration for herhomecoming.
  • A celebration isheldfor theboyat theagewhen he isconsideredto havereachedmanhood.
  • Theendingof thewaris not acausefor celebration, butratherforregretthat iteverhappened.
  • Thiscallsfor a celebration!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Celebrations, parties & special occasions
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  • afterparty
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  • bachelor party
  • backslapping
  • dinner dance
  • Easter egg hunt
  • fayre
  • feast
  • fest
  • masquerade
  • mela
  • Mother's Day
  • New Year's Eve
  • trick-or-treating
  • Valentine's Day
  • wassail
  • wassailer
  • wassailing
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Celebrating & entertaining
(Definition ofcelebrationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcelebration

celebration
Popes and kings, however, wanted this glory as a backdrop to their processions and celebrations, to impress the people and provide the required spectacle.
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Secondly, families took an active part in celebrations for the nuns' entrance into religious life and profession.
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The structure and form of the celebrations sought to bind the city's political leaders together with local leaders in a joint enterprise.
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All these events naturally led to large and small celebrations attended by participants and their supporters.
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Often the local groups sang, danced and cooked for celebratory functions, in welcoming official guests of local dignitaries or in political celebrations.
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Modest celebrations were also often cobbled together for first-born children.
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In this he acts as a brake on multiculturalist celebrations of difference by refusing to accept the performance of his ethnicity as inevitable.
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Traditional celebrations honor individual heroism, not the mere act of survival in a modern war.
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She oversees the cooking, the entertaining of female guests, the servants' lives and marriages, the haveli celebrations, and even the affairs of the junior relatives.
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Samogon was certainly used as a medium of exchange, as well as for customary celebrations.
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The naval celebrations of this era were a central medium in the active promotion of peacetime service reputations.
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The lessons are given a theatrical touch, explained as a story-telling style, not otherwise familiar in celebrations of the liturgy.
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First, these celebrations saw the transposition of the chants and readings of the most private of canonical hours to an eminently public venue.
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Even here, there is no surviving indication whether the celebrations were directly associated with the final religious confirmation of the marriage.
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Undine claims her faithless lover during his wedding celebrations.
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Collocationswithcelebration

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These are words often used in combination withcelebration.

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annual celebration
He gained local notice when he persuaded his company to forgo the customary liquor at theirannualcelebration.
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birthday celebration
Each year abirthdaycelebrationconcert is held in his honor.
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centennial celebration
The awarding of this medal took place only once by design, as it was linked to acentennialcelebrationevent.
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