第三人称复数：circuses
名词马戏，马戏团; 马戏表演（常在大帐篷里进行）; 环形广场，（用于某些地名）圆形广场; <口>乱哄哄的热闹场面
1. 马戏：1768年,英国人Philip Astley将小丑表演中的喜剧成分和杂技成分融入到马术(horsemanship)中,这种表演立刻受到欢迎,于是我们现在看到的马戏(circus)诞生了.
1. circus的近义词
1. 马戏团
A circus is a group that consists of clowns, acrobats, and animals which travels around to different places and performs shows.
e.g. My real ambition was to work in a circus.
我的真正理想是在马戏团工作。
e.g. ...circus performers.
马戏团演员
2. circus
2. 闹哄哄的人群;架势很大的活动
If you describe a group of people or an event as a circus, you disapprove of them because they attract a lot of attention but do not achieve anything useful.
e.g. It could well turn into some kind of a media circus.
这很可能会演变成媒体的一场闹剧。
e.g. ...the travelling circus of political journalists.
四处奔走的一群政治记者
3. (有时用于街道名称)环形路，环形广场，环形交叉口
Circus is sometimes used as part of the name of a street which goes in a circle.
e.g. ...Piccadilly Circus.
皮卡迪利广场
1. A python escaped from its cage at a traveling circus and strangled an employee, said police in the southern Russian city of Stavropol.
2. circus的解释
2. The manager of a nearby circus troupe claimed the crocodile, saying it had escaped from its cage minutes before a show.
3. The Canadian creator of the famed circus troupe is paying $ 35 million to jet up to the station later this month on a Russian craft.
4. Eva Mendes looks like a " circus act " when she walks in high heels.
5. Authorities says three tigers that had escaped from a Mexican circus truck were recaptured after police distracted them by throwing them chickens.
6. Several clinics had refused to take him, fearing he would resist treatment and the media circus would deny privacy to other patients.
7. circus
7. Juggling rather than throwing his mobile phone, a teenaged circus performer won the freestyle gold medal at the world championships on Saturday.
8. She worked as a migrant laborer for the following two years, until a friend introduced her to the world of animal trainers in a local circus.
9. It was part of a carefully orchestrated communications strategy to disclose bits of information, but keep the wedding from becoming a media circus.
10. Just about to run away with the circus he was so excited, Zhao lit a cotton roll and spat alcohol on it.
noun
1. circus在线翻译
1. a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
e.g. the children always love to go to the circus
2. a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
e.g. it was so funny it was a circus
the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere
Synonym: carnival
3. circus
3. an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent
e.g. they used the elephants to help put up the circus
4. (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games
5. a travelling company of entertainers
including trained animals
e.g. he ran away from home to join the circus