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A festival in Wales where people compete in singing, poetry, music, and often reciting or other Welsh arts. It is not a pop concert and not a sports day; it is a cultural gathering with judges and prizes, and the National Eisteddfod is the big yearly one. English borrowed the Welsh word as it is, without smoothing the spelling. In Welsh it is built from sit and be, so the old idea is a sitting — a session where people come together. You keep that Welsh look in English sentences; you do not translate it. It is a specialised word. You mainly meet it when the subject is Wales. The English plural is often eisteddfods; Welsh has its own plural, which you may see in careful writing.
威爾斯詩歌音樂節(威爾斯語,英語直接借用)
組成Unadapted from Welsh eisteddfod (session), from eistedd (to sit) + bod (to be); literally being sitting.
原始詞典資料2 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。
eisteddfodnoun/aɪˈstɛðvɒd/
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Any of several annual festivals in which Welsh poets, dancers, and musicians compete for recognition.
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(more generally) An annual performing arts competition, typically for youth.
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。