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 festive ['festiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 庆祝的, 喜庆的, 欢乐的

  1. The festive season is coming.
    圣诞节要到了。
  2. The whole town is in a festive mood.
    全镇沉浸在节日的气氛之中。
  3. A good or festive time.
    欢乐或喜庆的期间


festive
[ adj ]
offering fun and gaiety
<adj.all>
a festive (or festal) occasiongay and exciting night life
a merry evening


Festive \Fes"tive\, a. [L. festivus, fr. festum holiday, feast.
See {feast}, and cf. {Festivous}.]
Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay;
mirthful; sportive. -- {Fes"tive*ly}, adv.

The glad circle round them yield their souls
To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. --Thomson.

  1. No injuries were reported and some raiders appeared in a nearly festive mood.
  2. The festive catch-all on the South Bank, 'Meltdown', ends this weekend.
  3. Believe it or not, fasting can be fun and the atmosphere can be festive.
  4. Christmas carols echo through the Hamra commercial district of Moslem west Beirut, Christmas trees and other festive decorations are up in the streets just as they are in the eastern Christian sector.
  5. Bid target Northern appreciated 4 to 1010p, and its bidder Trafalgar House edged a penny forward to 75p, in good business of 7.2m Optimism over trading during the festive season brought a cheer to several retailing stocks.
  6. So there was no festive hall, only Grace Bumbry, the substitute Lady Macbeth, raising a goblet and singing in a voice as fugitive as Banquo's ghost.
  7. Besides, the atmosphere at home was festive.
  8. On Wednesday, Fernandez distributed "titles" to 216 farmers during a festive ceremony attended by about 1,000 people at a government school near this coastal town about 350 miles southeast of Manila.
  9. And the preliminary elliptical spaces that lead from the entrance into the courtyard (the first of which contains a single tree in its center; the second, a festive planting of flowers) seem unnecessary, except, perhaps, as party spaces.
  10. Sotheby's will sell "Au Moulin de La Gallete," Pierre-Auguste Renoir's vibrant depiction of a festive Parisian dance hall.
  11. Even a much-publicized ad in the "For People Who Like to Smoke" series, showing a bare-chested guy in his pajamas interrupting a festive brunch, didn't reverse the brand's ailing fortunes.
  12. But chances are, you have a bargain anyway. GERMANY GERMANY rose late from the festive table last weekend, downed an Underberg and an aspirin, and went shopping.
  13. "A year ago there was a festive look.
  14. Not even heavy showers Friday and Saturday seemed to deaden the city's festive spirit.
  15. A young medical assistant trembled and sobbed as she thought of the festive air show that turned into a fiery tragedy.
  16. There were banners, partisan crowds, a huge press contingent and a festive yet tense atmosphere Sunday as George Bush and Michael Dukakis matched wits for 90 minutes in the chapel with millions of Americans looking on through television.
  17. Gathered around an empty fountain, the Salvation Army trombones struck up with festive sonority.
  18. It was not a festive mood in the gym that night.
  19. Palauans voted in a festive presidential election today less than three months after the western Pacific archipelago's president committed suicide and three years after his predecessor was assassinated.
  20. Toward midnight, a festive clump of young men and one pretty young girl are partying noisily near the LIRR police office.
  21. Over the years, liberal marriage laws and the city's festive atmosphere have made Las Vegas a marriage capital.
  22. Barbara Bush, taking time out Thursday from the festive French bicentennial celebration, inaugurated a wing at the American Hospital with an extemporaneous speech _ an informal touch recently adopted by the first couple.
  23. But scholars at a Bible research center say diners in Christ's era more likely reclined on floor cushions for festive meals, as the Romans did in that day.
  24. The mood on campus was festive as picket lines snaked around buildings and people carrying banners marched through the Student Union.
  25. So it was when a festive phalanx of red-suited, black-booted Kris Kringles _ excited graduates of a Santa school _ invaded a downtown hotel lobby to a chorus of ho-ho-hos.
  26. Print your own Christmas card with a festive font pack designed for those using the latest Windows software.
  27. The festive crowd waved Costa Rican and red-and-blue Social Christian flags.
  28. She and Justin taped the music for the wedding procession and recession. And they chose a festive menu of interesting but healthful food.
  29. Micro Format, in Wheeling, Ill., markets computer-printer paper without perforations for making festive banners.
  30. There was a festive party atmosphere on the Mathews Bridge, with crowds cheering, horns honking and the St. Johns River City Band playing.
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