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An extravaganza is a show that is huge, shiny, and expensive on purpose — the kind where people dress up, the lights are too bright, and nobody is trying to be quiet. A New Year TV special, a big concert with , a fashion show that looks like a circus: those can be extravaganzas. The word itself is a bit of a show. It is not a quiet dinner. Newspapers love it for anything . Though actually, people stretch it: a bakery might call a cake table a chocolate extravaganza, which is just marketing for a lot of cake.
華麗盛會；盛大演出
組成From Italian stravaganza, with its English shape influenced by extravagance.
同家族的字
- extravagancethe English word that helped shape the spelling of this Italian borrowing
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。
extravaganzanoun/ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/
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An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature, or drama, originally associated with Victorian England.
- The ingenious method was hit upon of dove-tailing extravaganza and pantomime. A long burlesque, the characters in which have nothing to do with the harlequinade, terminates with one of those elaborate and gorgeous displays which have acquired the name of “Transformation Scenes.”
- It grew out of the Victorian “extravaganza” style, which took serious opera and literature and applied broad comic satire (usually with music) that played to the masses.
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An instance of fantastical, unrestrained, lavish, or chaotic behaviour or conduct.
- The bride had her heart set on a simple wedding, but her parents insisted on a three-hundred-guest extravaganza.
- I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.
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。