Word · Frequency #20673
reveller
狂欢者;欢宴者
a person who takes part in a noisy celebration
- 1.
One who attends revels; a partygoer.
参加狂欢者;聚会者。
参加狂欢者;聚会者。;狂欢者;欢宴者
In use
The street was full of revellers singing and dancing late into the night.
A tired reveller fell asleep on the bus on the way home.
The festival ended with thousands of revellers watching the fireworks.
revellers at [event]
reveller 是可数名词,指在热闹活动中欢庆的人;复数 revellers 常后接 at 加活动或地点,表示“在……的狂欢者”。
The revellers at the street party danced until midnight.
街头派对上的狂欢者跳舞直到午夜。
Common mistakes
He reveller at the party.He revelled at the party.
reveller 是名词,意为“狂欢者”,不能作谓语;表达“尽情狂欢”要用动词 revel,这里应使用过去式 revelled。
The streets were full of reveller.The streets were full of revellers.
reveller 是可数名词,复数形式为 revellers;表示“许多狂欢者”时需在词尾加 -s。
Connections
Collocations
- New Year's Eve revellers
- 新年夜的狂欢者
- New Year's Eve revellers filled the square with music and laughter.新年夜的狂欢者用音乐和欢笑挤满了广场。
- drunken revellers
- 醉酒的狂欢者
- The police moved the drunken revellers out of the street.警察把醉酒的狂欢者赶出了街道。
- late-night revellers
- 深夜狂欢者
- Late-night revellers spilled out of the clubs at 3 a.m.凌晨三点,深夜狂欢者从夜总会涌出。
- street revellers
- 街头狂欢者
- Street revellers danced until the early morning.街头狂欢者一直跳舞到清晨。
- carnival revellers
- 嘉年华狂欢者
- Carnival revellers in colorful costumes paraded across the town.穿着艳丽服装的嘉年华狂欢者穿过小镇游行。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 reveller 拆成“revel(狂欢)+ er(人)”,想象一群狂欢的人,词形和意思就都记住了。
Context & Register
语域:mixed 常见场景:news coverage of public celebrations、literary and narrative prose 该词多用于新闻报道或文学描写,传达欢闹、纵情庆祝的气氛;日常口语中较少见,正式与非正式语境都有使用,整体偏书面。
Pronunciation & Spelling
None of these is a true rhyme with reveller /ˈrevlə/. Seller /ˈselə/, dweller /ˈdwelə/, and speller /ˈspelə/ share the same stressed vowel /e/ but lack reveller's /v/ before the /l/; traveller /ˈtrævələ/, jeweller /ˈdʒuːələ/, and modeller /ˈmɒdələ/ have different stressed vowels. They are useful lookalikes for the -eller spelling.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.