I. The English word for festival is festival, phonetic English [?fest?vl], American [?f?st?v?l].
2. Definitions:
1. n. festival; feast; congratulatory feast, rendezvous
At?the?festival,?candles?are?blessed?and?sprinkled?with?holy?water?
At the?festival, candles?are?blessed?and?sprinkled.
At the festival, candles are blessed and sprinkled.
At the festival, candles.are?blessed?and?sprinkled.with?holy.water.
At?the?festival, candles?are?blessed.and?sprinkled.with?holy.water.
At the festival, candles.are?blessed. holy water.
2. adj. festive, festive
With?red?flags?fluttering?everywhere?in?celebration?
of?the?festival,?the?square?looked? trulymagnificent.?
The festival square looked magnificent with red flags flying everywhere.
Three.Etymology Explanation:
Entered the English language in the 1680s, and is directly derived from the Medieval Latin festivalis, meaning associated with a church holiday.
4. Usage:
n. (noun)
1. festival means "festival", mostly referring to folk or religious festivals, and when used as a proper noun, the definite article must be added in front of it; sometimes it also refers to festivals of music, theater, film, and other performances.
2. Generally speaking, festivals composed of the definite article and the noun festival need to be preceded by the definite article when they are expressed, such as the Spring Festival.
Expanded Information:
I. Word Sense Analysis:
n. (noun)
festival, day, holiday, leave, vacation
These five words all have the word "holiday". The difference is that: holiday comes from religious festivals, holidays, is a common word, mostly used in British English, refers to a person in the year not to do the work of that time, can also be used to express one or two days of short vacation; day represents the legal holidays, mostly used in proper nouns;?
festival refers to folk or religious festivals, and contains the meaning of regular celebration; leave refers to government workers or military personnel on vacation; vacation for the university to stop classes for up to weeks of holiday or court stops the court time, in the United States in the English language, all the longer vacations can be used in this word. For example:
August and September are the months of the year?
during which most English people take their holidays.
During which most English people take their holidays.
We celebrate National Day every year.
Christmas is one of the festivals of the Christian church.
The soldiers will go home on leave once every two years.
The soldiers go home on leave once every two years.
Three vacations occur in the course of the year, viz, two weeks at Christmas,?
Three vacations occur in the course of the year, viz, two weeks at Christmas,? ten days at Easter and the usual two months in summer.
Second, vocabulary collocation:
1, annual festival 一年一度的节日
2、great[important]festival 大[重要]节日
3、happy[pleasant, solemn] festival 愉快[欢快,庄重]的节日
3、happy[pleasant, solemn] festival 愉快[欢快,庄重]节日. solemn] festival
4, high festival grand festival
5, immovable festival fixed date festival