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

• Circuses don't seem to have much pulling power these days.
  现在马戏表演似乎不再有很大吸引力了。
• 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。
• Circuses are alluring both to children and to adults.
  马戏既吸引小孩，也吸引大人。
• Sometimes circuses with acrobats and animal acts would stage shows in the Amphitheater.
  有时候表扬走钢丝和动物秀的马戏团也会在圆形剧场演出。
• An open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses.
  举行露天集市或展览或表演马戏的露天的地方。
• However, performers dispute this, saying the creatures are born and raised in the circuses they perform in and do not know another way of life.
  然而，马戏团的表演者却不这样认为，他们说这些动物在马戏团出生、长大、训练、表演，除此之外，它们不懂得任何其他技能。
• 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。
• Zoos and circuses that feature stunts involving animals are widely popular across China.
  在中国，有动物马戏表演的动物园和马戏团颇受欢迎。
• 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。
• 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。