No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark, lay hidden in the dregs of it. 欢快的酒神的火苗是无法从德伐日先生压榨出的葡萄汁上燃起来的,它的酒渣里也隐藏着一种在黑暗里闷着燃烧的火。
As she settled down in a" gaijin house" in central Tokyo and looked for work in some of Roppongi district's hostess clubs, Lucie,21, saw a city that was almost carnal in its appetites and bacchanalian in its spirit. 当她在东京市中心的“外国人住宅区”安顿下来,在六本木地区几个舞女夜总会找工作的时候,21岁的露茜看到的是一个肉池酒林,彻夜狂欢的城市。
bacchanalian
[ adj ] used of riotously drunken merrymaking <adj.all> a night of bacchanalian revelrycarousing bands of drunken soldiers orgiastic festivity
Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\ (b[a^]k`k[.a]*n[=a]"l[i^]*an; 106), a. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.
Bacchanalian \Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.