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Bastille [bæs'ti:l]

n. 巴士底狱

A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years.
在一出极为成功的演出中，一位著名演员有一次被选派扮演一名贵族。这位贵族被关押在巴士底狱已20年了。
The capture of Brill must rank as a turning-point not only in Netherlands history but in world history: an event of the order of the fall of the Bastille, or the execution of Charles I.
擒获布里尔不仅在荷兰历史上而且在世界历史上都应视为一个转折点―一个和攻克巴斯底狱或绞死查理士一世一样的重大事件。

bastille

[ noun ]

a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution

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a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)

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Bastile \Bas*tile"\ Bastille \Bas*tille"\(b[.a]s*t[=e]l" or
b[.a]s"t[-e]l; 277), n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to
build, F. b[^a]tir.]
1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the
defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.

The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls.
--Holland.

2. ``The Bastille'', formerly a castle or fortress in Paris,
used as a prison, especially for political offenders;
hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.

Tickets to the new Opera Bastille are expected to cost a maximun of 250 francs (about $40), less than half their cost at the Palais Garnier, which from now on will be devoted to ballet.
The weeklong birthday tribute begins Friday with a Bastille Day street party at a restaurant.
Under the terms I was offered, they could have told me to conduct 40 ballet performances and I would have had no choice.' Chung was appointed shortly before the Bastille opened in 1989, a little-known 36-year old who did not even speak French.
Leaders of some of the Third World countries attending the Bastille celebration urged the prosperous nations to hold a summit between rich and poor nations.
A multimillion-dollar opera-ballet starring 8,000 dancers and musicians, 100 sheep, two elephants and a locomotive will highlight July 14 celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison.
Chung has promised to present the first production in February. The Opera Bastille will close July 20 so the building can be finished.
Even in a normal year, Bastille Day celebrations of military regalia on the Champs-Elysees, dancing in local fire halls and fireworks in the skies mark July 14 in Paris and provincial towns _ similar to the American 4th of July.
On Friday, there was a Bastille Day parade of marching bands, extraordinary floats and other attractions, including opera star Jessye Norman singing the French national anthem.
Not to the old home but to the Opera Bastille, in a new and radically different staging by Peter Sellars, first seen at this year's Salzburg Festival.
They weren't celebrating Bastille Day in Paris, Ind. As a matter of fact, some folks wouldn't have known what to celebrate.
While the Bastille made the loss of its music director a drama on an international scale, Opera North's general director slipped away quietly.
It is unusual to see anyone under 30 in a traditional cafe-tabac unless they are with older workmates. Young Parisians go to sombre bars in Pigalle and Bastille, where they play chess and read poetry.
"On July 14, nothing happened here," said Pelletier. "There was no television to see live how the Bastille was taken." A smoky mattress fire on the 17th floor of a Marriott Hotel forced evacuation of about 50 guests and employees Friday.
With Pierre Berge's motley management team now clearing their desks, the Bastille can be expected to drift for the next 18 months.
The caption said the sketch was entitled, "Destruction of the Bastille," and explained that it was a gift from Lafayette to Washington.
The Opera Bastille is a musician's dream with rehearsal rooms galore _ three for the orchestra, two for ballet, two for the chorus, 16 studios for singers and 12 for musicians.
"This beats any party back home," said Robert McKean of Alameda, Calif., who took a break from studying French in summer school to meet his friends at the Bastille.
The Provoked Wife was performed next, but may have been written earlier - possibly when the young Vanbrugh was a soldier-prisoner in the Bastille.
Thursday night's street dance at the Bastille was billed as the world's biggest all-night party.
For the French revolutionaries in 1789, the Bastille was both a hated symbol of oppression and a military garrison where they hoped to find guns and ammunition for defense against an expected attack by the troops of King Louis XVI.
On Thursday, Uno will attend events celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution in Paris and grand opening of the new Bastille Opera House.
The Opera Bastille may find it difficult to persuade the conservatives to fund its plans for a 1,100 seat auditorium to stage smaller productions.
Last Thursday, France rolled out tanks, armored personnel carriers and other examples of military muscle in a parade that was part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Bastille Day, marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
Most of the comedy scenes are made out of leavings from Falstaff Mirella Freni takes the title-role in this new production at the Bastille. Experienced she certainly is but not, on this evidence, in decline.
The inaugural concert of the Opera Bastille was expected to attract a range of dignitaries, including 30 heads of state, and the cream of French society.
He swam through Paris from the Bastille to the little-known French Statue of Liberty, on an island in the Seine down river from the Eiffel Tower.
"It is a huge book and I had never read it," said Aumont. "It took me many days to get through it, but it was worth it." Dr. Manette is in poor health when he is released from the Bastille.
The festivities are designed to peak July 14 on the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, the most memorable event of the long and turbulent revolutionary years.
It will be used for the celebrations of Bastille Day on July 14, the simultaneous summit of the world's seven richest countries, and the July 23 arrival of the Tour de France bicycle race in Paris.
The Opera Bastille opens its 1994-5 season tonight with Verdi's 'Simon Boccanegra'.

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