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
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  1. N-COUNT 马戏团
    A circus is 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 circus is 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。
  2. 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 a circus, 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
  3. N-IN-NAMES (有时用于街道名称)环形路，环形广场，环形交叉口
    Circus is sometimes used as part of the name of a street which goes in a circle.
    1. ...Piccadilly Circus.
      皮卡迪利广场
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双语例句

  1. Circuses in the hinterland were hilarious.
    内地的马戏团非常热闹。
  2. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
    今天在这一带是全新的大街、竞技场、马戏场、跑马场、火车起点站、一所名为马扎斯的监狱，足见进步不离刑罚。
  3. 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。
  4. Tigers jumping through flames, horses rearing elegantly and elephants standing on their hind legs-animals have played a large role in Mexican circuses for generations.
    老虎跳火圈，马群腾立表演，大象后腿站立多年来，这些动物们在墨西哥马戏团的表演中发挥了巨大的作用。
  5. Torres said because she opposes exhibiting animals in circuses, she decided to keep her shelter closed from the public.
    Torres说，因为她反对在马戏团里展出动物，因此她的庇护所不对公众开放。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos.
    我们中的大部分人在吃肉，穿皮革，去马戏团和动物园的环境中长大。
  9. Yes, it's better in some ways, because it's close to home and circuses and all that.
    的确有些好处，因为这样离家近，看马戏什么的也方便。
  10. Circuses are alluring both to children and to adults.
    马戏既吸引小孩，也吸引大人。
  11. 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。
  12. The Roman Emperors kept the common people content with bread and circuses.
    罗马帝国始终使老百姓满足于面包和马戏。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. Sea lions often perform in entertainments such as circuses.
    海狮常常在诸如马戏团这一类娱乐场演出。
  16. For a lay person, blue-sky research can appear a waste of money as it does not immediately provide the modern equivalents of bread and circuses.
    在外行人看来，理论研究似乎纯属浪费钱财，因为它不能立刻转化成像面包和马戏那样的东西。
  17. Wild animals from the jungles, forests and seas are very popular performers in circuses and moving pictures.
    丛林、森林或海洋里的野生动物在马戏团的节目表演和动画片的制作方面非常普遍。
  18. 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。
  19. I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in WASTING it on them.
    如果没有别的办法，在马戏团上面花点儿钱，这我并不反对，不过也不必为了这一些，把钱浪费掉啊。
  20. 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。
  21. 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。
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