spectacle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
    — The horse race was a thrilling spectacle.
  2. An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
    — He made a spectacle out of himself.
  3. Attributive form of spectacles. attributive,form-of
    — Some very interesting relics of Adam and Eve were shown us, that were brought from America; such as a fine-tooth comb, made of thorns, a part of a pair of leather spectacle frames, without glasses, a boot jack made of ebony, and a set of pawpaws of props, with the backs filled with a hard substance, resembling lava.
  4. The brille of a snake.
  5. A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.

词形变化

spectacles plural

词汇关系

近义词
glasses eyeglasses specs
衍生词
bespectacled counterspectacle make a public spectacle of oneself make a spectacle of oneself minispectacle spectacle case spectacled spectacleless spectaclelike spectaclemaker spectaclemaking spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch superspectacle
相关词
species spectacular speculate

词源

From Middle English spectacle, from Middle French spectacle, from Latin spectāculum (“a show, spectacle”), from spectō (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speciō (“to see”). See species. Doublet of spectaculum.
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