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 spectacle ['spɛktəkl.]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 引人羡慕的东西, 景象, 眼镜, 场面, 公开展示



    spectacle
    [ noun ]
    1. something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight)

      2. <noun.communication>
      the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape
    2. an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale

      3. <noun.artifact>
    3. a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself

      4. <noun.act>


    Spectacle \Spec"ta*cle\, n. [F., fr. L. spectaculum, fr.
    spectare to look at, to behold, v. intens. fr. specere. See
    {Spy}.]
    1. Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented
    to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of
    special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show;
    a pageant; a gazingstock.

    O, piteous spectacle? O, bloody times! --Shak.

    2. A spy-glass; a looking-glass. [Obs.]

    Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me,
    Through which he may his very friends see.
    --Chaucer.

    3. pl. An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in
    a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some
    defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from
    bright light.

    4. pl. Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.

    Shakespeare . . . needed not the spectacles of books
    to read nature. --Dryden.

    Syn: Show; sight; exhibition; representation; pageant.

    1. One result is the troubling spectacle of personal attacks on a federal judge.
    2. Lawmakers want to avoid last year's spectacle of Congress passing a $600 billion bill to fund the entire government in the wee hours of a December morning.
    3. Some people just came not only to look, but to be part of the spectacle.
    4. This annual stage spectacle, coupled with a colorful art festival, is such a box-office hit that it needs no help from the National Endowment for the Arts.
    5. Schumer and other Democrats charge that Bush weighed in only after it was clear he would be embarrassed by the spectacle of Democrats overcoming Republican opposition to win a victory for the president.
    6. "It was an ugly spectacle," Mr. Hitchcock recalls.
    7. "I believe Australians are sick to death and quite angry at the spectacle of high-living bankrupts being permitted to travel overseas."
    8. And the MacKouls show the spectacle for free.
    9. The fines would vary according to the depth of the defendants' pockets. Expect the spectacle of juries asking for financial statements before determining final verdicts.
    10. The action is part of Universal Studios Tour's $5 million "Miami Vice" outdoor stunt show, a 15-minute, 50-stunt spectacle of high-speed water chases and pyrotechnic wizardry.
    11. The event is taking place at Davies Symphony Hall here in a spectacle characteristic of Mr. Jobs' prior exploits.
    12. It is the coveted goal of the most energetic and resourceful of outsiders - and a splendid spectacle for everyone else.
    13. It is not as if, as in the repellent Heaven of Thomas Aquinas, the beatitude of the saved is heightened by the spectacle of the torments of the damned.
    14. A chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz and a trail of autograph-seekers make Emmanuel Lewis something of a spectacle on the campus of Clark Atlanta University.
    15. "Starlight Express," a high-tech rollerskating spectacle that cost $8 million to mount on Broadway, is still running in London and New York despite lots of negative notices.
    16. However, when the last rock and trailing branch had been put in place, "Fantasy Sculpture I" was every bit the spectacle Ms. Aycock intended, with darts of sunlight streaming through the constellation cut-outs and glinting off the copper roof.
    17. Yet these dramas are being dwarfed by a larger spectacle.
    18. To those who have followed his career, the most notable thing about "Mike" these days may be the spectacle of an unregenerate publicity-hater taking needy children to a baseball game, or barnstorming a publishers' convention.
    19. But Britain's opposition socialist Labor Party, now well ahead of Mrs. Thatcher's party in the polls, accused her of making an "eccentric spectacle" of herself with her "offensive" comments about the French revolution.
    20. When that champion is burnt out at 25 it makes a particularly pathetic spectacle. But even while Ovett, Coe and Peter Elliott were regularly appearing in two middle-distance finals, things were changing.
    21. Police estimated that more than 300,000 Parisians and tourists gathered behind barricades along the avenue to glimpse and photograph the unique spectacle.
    22. It was a great spectacle, but one had to be alone to see it.
    23. Old movies and new draw their panache from the spectacle of characters out of their depth or element.
    24. Thought for Today: "Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament." - George Santayana, Spanish-born philosopher (1863-1952).
    25. But once we had a public spectacle, many of the participants acquitted themselves well.
    26. We resurrect this dirt because there is no other way to put into perspective the spectacle unfolding before the nation's eyes: A spiteful and hypocritical demagoging of one of the handful of most distinguished Supreme Court nominees of the century.
    27. "Ever afterward," writes Mr. Troyat, "the spectacle of human suffering, of human madness, was to hold an irresistible fascination for him."
    28. The spectacle of England mimicking our litigiousness might look like a boost for the relative competitiveness of the U.S.; now if only we could export some of our lawyers to Japan.
    29. In the recent downpour, they could also lend bedding plants to the best of this year's newspaper gardens. Inside the tent, the scale and the spectacle still amaze me.
    30. It was quite a spectacle sitting in an office, overlooking the entire store, and watching the crowds rush from one end of an 80,000-square-foot store to another.
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