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To carouse is to drink a great deal with other people, loudly and late, as if the point were the noise and the emptying of glasses, not a polite toast. It is an old, slightly literary verb. A grandmother in a novel might carouse; a student today more often says party, drink, or go out. You can also meet it as a noun — a carouse, meaning one such night — but the verb is the home use. The feeling is not a quiet glass of wine at dinner. It is sociable, rough-edged, and often a bit ashamed of itself in the morning. Formal writing still likes it because one word carries drink + noise + company. In speech it can sound humorous or old-fashioned, as if you were putting on a costume.
狂歡暢飲、痛飲作樂
組成From Middle French carousser, “to gulp, to drink hard,” from German gar aus, literally “all out, quite out” — the cry to drain the cup. That sits on gar austrinken, “to drink it up entirely.” Compare German Garaus. So the English verb is a drinking-shout that hardened into a word, not car- + house.
同家族的字
- carousalthe noun for the noisy drinking party you are having when you carouse
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
carouseverb/kəˈɹaʊz/
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To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
- We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight.
- The prospect of two hundred (or more) loitering and carousing patrons streaming out of the club at 1 a.m. is profoundly disturbing to us.
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To drink to excess.
- If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian’s.
- […] the cup-bearers did fill great gems made in form of cups with ancient wine, and the Demons caroused to Lord Juss deep draughts in honour of this day of his nativity.
carousenoun/kəˈɹaʊz/
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A large draught of liquor.
- […] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […]
- Had our great Pallace the capacity To Campe this hoaſt, we all would ſup together, And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate […]
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A drinking bout; a carousal.
- The early feast and late carouse.
- PORSON […] would not only frequently “steal a few hours from the night,” but see out both lights and liquids, and seem none the worse for the carouse.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。