circus

英 ['s??k?s] 美['s?k?s]
  • n. 馬戲;馬戲團

TEM4考研CET6IELTS中低頻詞常用詞匯

詞態變化


復數:?circuses;

中文詞源


circus 馬戲團

來自PIE*sker,轉,圍,圈,詞源同ring,circle.原指古羅馬圓形斗牛場,后指馬戲團。

英文詞源


circus
circus: [16] Latin circus meant literally ‘ring, circle’, but it was applied metaphorically by the Romans to the circular arena in which performances and contests were held. That was the original signification of the word in English, applied in a strictly antiquarian sense to the ancient world, and it was not until the late 18th century that it began to be used for any circular arena and the entertainment staged therein.

The Latin word is related to, and may have come from, Greek kírkos; and it is also connected with Latin curvus, source of English curve. It has additionally been linked with Latin corōna ‘circlet’, from which English gets crown. And it is of course, via its accusative form circum, the starting point of a wide range of English words with the prefix circum-, from circumference to circumvent (in this category is circuit [14], which goes back to an original Latin compound verb circumīre, literally ‘go round’).

=> circle, circuit, circulate, crown, curve, search
circus (n.)
late 14c., in reference to ancient Rome, from Latin circus "ring, circular line," which was applied by Romans to circular arenas for performances and contests and oval courses for racing (especially the Circus Maximus), from or cognate with Greek kirkos "a circle, a ring," from PIE *kirk- from root *(s)ker- (3) "to turn, bend" (see ring (n.)).

In reference to modern large arenas for performances from 1791; sense then extended to the performing company, hence "traveling show" (originally traveling circus, 1838). Extended in World War I to squadrons of military aircraft. Meaning "lively uproar, chaotic hubbub" is from 1869. Sense in Picadilly Circus and other place names is from early 18c. sense "buildings arranged in a ring," also "circular road." The adjective form is circensian.

雙語例句


1. The couple married in the Caribbean to avoid a media circus.
為了擺脫媒體的關注,這對新人在加勒比喜結連理。

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2. She dreamed of being a bareback rider in a circus.
她夢想成為馬戲團中的一名無鞍馬騎手。

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3. It could well turn into some kind of a media circus.
這很可能會演變成媒體的一場鬧劇。

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4. Do you know what? I'm going to the circus this afternoon.
你知道嗎?我下午要去看馬戲。

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5. He described the smell as something between a circus and a sea-port.
他形容那種氣味介于馬戲團和海港的味道之間。

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