carouse

英 [k?'ra?z] 美[k?'ra?z]

GRE

第三人稱單數(shù):?carouses;過去式:?caroused;過去分詞:?caroused;現(xiàn)在分詞:?carousing;

1. carouse "可鬧死，可樂死".

carouse 狂歡作樂

來自德語短語gar aus, 字面意思即quite out. gar, 詞源同前綴ge-, com-。 -aus, 詞源同out. 即盡情喝酒狂歡。

carouse: carouse: [16] Etymologically, carouse means to drink something up ‘completely’. Originally it was an adverb, used in phrases such as drink carouse (‘the tiplinge sottes at midnight which to quaffe carouse do use’, Thomas Drant, Horace’s Epigrams 1567). These were a partial translation of German trinken garaus, in which garaus is a compound adverb made up of gar ‘completely, all’ and aus ‘out’.
carouse (v.): 1550s, from Middle French carousser "drink, quaff, swill," from German gar aus "quite out," from gar austrinken; trink garaus "to drink up entirely." Frequently also as an adverb in early English usage (to drink carouse).

2. His followers did not rape or carouse, like the troops of many warlord armies.: 他的部下也不象許多軍閥的軍隊(duì)那樣強(qiáng)奸民女, 大吃大喝.

3. No wonder they drink, smoke, fight, carouse and otherwise engage in inappropriate social behavior.: 難怪他們喝酒、抽煙、打架、狂歡作樂或者做出不當(dāng)?shù)纳鐣?huì)舉動(dòng).

4. No wonder they drink, smoke , fright , carouse and otherwise engage in inappropriate social behavior.: 難怪他們喝酒、抽煙、打架、狂歡作樂可能做出不當(dāng)?shù)纳鐣?huì)舉止.