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celebrate sth
常见及物用法，后接庆祝的事件。
We celebrated her birthday with a party.
我们举办派对庆祝她的生日。
庆祝；庆贺
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
庆祝；庆贺
To take part in enjoyable activities to show that an event or occasion is special.
We celebrated her birthday with a party.
我们举办派对庆祝她的生日。
以庄重的方式颂扬或尊敬
To extol or honour in a solemn manner.
以仪式、欢乐和尊敬的庆典,或停止日常工作来纪念；正式庆祝
To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
进行欢乐的活动以庆祝某事
To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
执行或参与圣礼或庄严仪式；以适当的仪式进行
To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to perform with appropriate rites.
celebrate
Base
原形
celebrates
3rd person
第三人称单数
celebrating
-ing
现在分词
celebrated
Past
过去式
celebrated
Past participle
过去分词
We celebrate our anniversary every year.
我们每年都庆祝我们的周年纪念日。
They celebrated their victory last night.
他们昨晚庆祝了他们的胜利。
She is celebrating her birthday today.
她今天正在庆祝她的生日。
We celebrate our anniversary every year with a special dinner.
我们每年都以一顿特别的晚餐来庆祝我们的周年纪念日。
They celebrated the end of the project with a party.
他们举办了一个派对来庆祝项目的结束。
The whole town is celebrating the festival with music and dancing.
整个城镇都在用音乐和舞蹈庆祝这个节日。
常见及物用法，后接庆祝的事件。
We celebrated her birthday with a party.
我们举办派对庆祝她的生日。
表示庆祝的方式，by后接动名词。
They celebrated by going out to dinner.
他们通过外出就餐来庆祝。
Not this
We celebrated for his success.
Use this
We celebrated his success.
动词 celebrate 是及物动词，直接跟庆祝的对象，不需加介词 for。
Not this
I want to congratulate my birthday.
Use this
I want to celebrate my birthday.
congratulate 用于祝贺某人（如 congratulate someone on something），而 celebrate 用于庆祝事件或节日。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
庆祝某个场合
We are going to celebrate the occasion with a big party.
我们要举办一个大型派对来庆祝这个场合。
庆祝节日
Many people celebrate Christmas with their families.
许多人跟家人一起庆祝圣诞节。
庆祝生日
She celebrated her birthday at a fancy restaurant.
她在一家高档餐厅庆祝了生日。
庆祝成功
The team celebrated their success after winning the championship.
赢得冠军后，团队庆祝了他们的成功。
与家人庆祝
I love to celebrate holidays with my family.
我喜欢和家人一起庆祝节日。
一起庆祝
Let's celebrate together after the project is finished.
项目结束后我们一起庆祝吧。
以豪华方式庆祝
They decided to celebrate their anniversary in style at a five-star restaurant.
他们决定在一家五星级餐厅豪华地庆祝他们的周年纪念。
轰轰烈烈地庆祝
The city celebrated the New Year with a bang, featuring a huge fireworks display.
这座城市以盛大的烟花表演轰轰烈烈地庆祝新年。
庆祝这个时刻
We gathered with friends and family to celebrate the occasion with a special dinner.
我们与朋友和家人聚在一起，以一顿特别的晚餐庆祝这个时刻。
庆祝美好时光，来吧！
At every party, they sing 'Celebrate good times, come on!'
每次派对上，他们都唱‘庆祝美好时光，来吧！’
我们将庆祝一年的过去。
In the musical Rent, they sing about celebrating the passing of the year.
在音乐剧《吉屋出租》中，他们唱到庆祝一年的过去。
Use celebrate naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记忆窍门：'celebrate'发音近似'塞了不累'，寓意庆祝时塞满东西也不觉得累。
动词'celebrate'最常用的义项为'庆祝'，适用于大多数日常和正式场合，如节日、生日、成就等。注册为中性，可根据上下文调整正式程度。常见语境包括节日庆典（如圣诞节）、个人纪念日（如生日）以及社会成就（如胜利）。
These words share the spelling ending '-brate' and the final syllable /breɪt/, but the stressed vowels differ (e.g., /ɛ/ in 'celebrate', /aɪ/ in 'vibrate', /æ/ in 'calibrate'), so they are not perfect rhymes. No lookalikes are included.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.