為了慶祝而擺的那一桌
核心兩半都在的一族：又豐盛，又是為了某個特別的日子。
feast, celebratory meal · noun · C1
A large meal where many people come together to celebrate a special day or event.
盛宴
核心畫面
A model that works well: a long table loaded with more food than anyone needs, and people gathered round it because the day itself is worth marking. Two things travel together in this word — abundance (far more than enough) and occasion (a day set apart). Different senses lean on different halves: the religious feast day keeps the occasion, feasting on chips keeps only the abundance and the pleasure.
一張長桌上擺著遠超過需要的食物，一群人圍著坐下來，因為這一天本身值得被記住。這個字裡有兩樣東西一起走：一是「豐盛」—…更多收起
一張長桌上擺著遠超過需要的食物，一群人圍著坐下來，因為這一天本身值得被記住。這個字裡有兩樣東西一起走：一是「豐盛」——多到吃不完；二是「時機」——這是特別被劃出來的一天。後面每個意思都是偏向其中一半：宗教節日保留了「特別的日子」那一半，而 feast on chips 只留下「豐盛加上盡情享受」那一半，跟慶祝完全無關。From the word’s history
From Latin festum "holiday, festival", via Old French feste — the root names the holy day first; the huge meal is what people did on it.
字源是拉丁文 festum（節慶、假日），經過古法文 feste 進入英文——注意順序：這個字根本來指的是「那個特別的日子」，大餐是人們在那天做的事。這解釋了為什麼 feast 到今天還同時能指宗教節日和一頓大餐；也解釋了它跟 festival、festive 是同一家人。
Wiktionary, entry "feast" (Middle English feeste < Old French feste < Late Latin festa, plural of Latin festum "holiday, festival")
Three branches
純粹豐盛的享受
核心的另一半：把「慶祝」拿掉，只留下「多到過癮、而且真的很享受」。
feast, a great meal · noun · C1
A very good large meal. A small group can have one; it does not have to be a big celebration.
大餐
為慶祝而大吃大喝
動詞裡把核心兩半都保住的那一支：吃得盡興，而且有明確的慶祝理由。
feast, celebrate with food · verb · C1
To eat and drink a lot in order to celebrate something.
歡宴
原始詞典資料9 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。
Feastname
- 1
A surname from Middle English.
- 2
A Baháʼí community meeting; occuring every nineteen days.
feastnoun詞源 1/ˈfiːst/
- 1
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
- The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
- Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
- 2
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
- We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
- 3
Something delightful and satisfying.
- It was a feast for the eyes.
- Lenin took the view, which is still treated as a a dogma by the Communist movement, that revisionism came into being as an ideology reflecting the interests of the aristocracy of the working class, whom the bourgeoisie permitted to enjoy the 'left-overs' of their feast of prosperity.
feastverb詞源 2/ˈfiːst/
- 1
To partake in a feast, or large meal.
- I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
- 2
To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
- 3
To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
- He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
- His ancestor, he said, had been feasted there, when he went forward with the then Lord Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.
- 4
obsoleteTo serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
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。