jamboree
jamboree 英 [ˌdʒæmbəˈri:] 美 [ˌdʒæmbəˈri]
n. 少年团体大会；欢乐的聚会
名词复数:jamborees
- A jamboree is a festive party or gathering. Your backyard jamboree might bother your neighbors, unless you invite them to join you.
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- n. 少年团体大会；欢乐的聚会
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1. The Olympics have probably gone past the point of no return, but staging another sporting jamboree so soon, when money is so tight, may look like a luxury too far.
奥运会虽然不再是笔亏本生意，但在这么短的时间内，在手头这么紧的情况下，再举办一场体育狂欢会，就多少有些太过奢侈了。
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2. It is a jamboree by the politicians to focus attention away from the 16 years of democracy that have not delivered for the majority of black people in this country.
这是政治家们玩弄的把戏，他们企图转移这个国家大多数黑人的注意力，黑人们盼了16年的民主从来没有得到过。
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3. What do you bring to the jamboree,darling,huh? Aside from those baby blues and a knife?
那你有带了点儿什么来派对哈，宝贝儿？除了那件蓝色上衣和那把刀之外？
- jamboree (n.) 1866, "carousal, noisy drinking bout; any merrymaking," represented in England as a typical American English word, perhaps from jam (n.) on pattern of shivaree [Barnhart]. For the second element, Weekley suggests French bourree, a kind of rustic dance. Century Dictionary calls the whole thing "probably arbitrary." Klein thinks the word of Hindu origin (but he credits its introduction into English, mistakenly, to Kipling). Boy Scouts use is from 1920. It is noted earlier as a term in cribbage:
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