mascot的意思|mascot的解释-里氏词典

mascot ['mæskәt]

n. 福神, 吉祥的东西

mascot

[ noun ]
a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure
<noun.person>

Mascot \Mas"cot\, Mascotte \Mas"cotte\, n. [Through French fr.
Pr. mascot a little sorcerer or magician, mascotto
witchcraft, sorcery.]
1. A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the
household to which he or she belongs.

2. Hence: Anything that brings good luck; especially, an
animal kept by a group, as a sports team, to serve as a
symbol and to bring luck.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

For instance, the school's mascot used to be a Johnnie Reb; now it's a pirate.
An 11-year-old dreams of wearing the mascot head.
The costume was taken Monday night by someone who broke into the parked car of Mike Recktenwald, 26, of Brentwood, one of two people who play the role of the mascot.
And Mystery Rat, the candidate from Vector Control. But Captain Sewer's most aggressive rival for children's attention is Kool Cat, a mischevious mascot of PhilaPride, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful.
"After all," she said, "our mascot is a 7-foot pelican, Long Beak.
Ravioli makers are seeing red now that their 8-foot plastic mascot Rudolpho has been stolen.
The gymnasium walls were papered with signs welcoming Bentsen, including one picturing the school's bulldog mascot wearing a cowboy hat.
Appointed mascot was Wira the orangutan, representing an endangered species of ape found only in Borneo and Sumatra. Independence Day, Aug. 31, is the anchor for 84 major events, 14 festivals and nine exhibitions.
A large gym bag containing the parrot's body was taken along with a bag containing the mascot's trademark head with its huge beak and buccaneer hat.
A new costume for the Pittsburgh Pirates' parrot mascot, worth about $8,200, has been stolen from a car parked downtown, police said.
Kiser said Bills XXII-XXV were retired prematurely "because of unfavorable dispositions." That means they were normal, ornery goats and didn't have the gentle disposition of Bill XXII or the new mascot, a youngster that is 12 to 18 months old.
It could be face down." The unofficial mascot of Phillips University _ P.U. for short _ wandered through an open door and caused quite a stink.
Santa Cruz went a little nuts at first over its new mascot.
The unofficial party _ it's known as NAP _ even has a mascot: a battered eagle.
Bill XXVI, who like his predecessors is a long-haired Angora goat, was named the mascot after Bill XXII was found dead Tuesday in his pen at the academy's dairy farm, said spokesman Jim Kiser.
Mary Dower, owner of Dower's Tavern in Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood, says thieves stole the tavern's mascot, a 5-by-6-foot winged horse made of steel.
"All the previous Expos have had not really a mascot but a landmark," Edelmann said. "So, in a way, poor old Curro is competing with the Eiffel Tower," designed for the 1889 Paris Centennial Exposition of the French Revolution.
Since R.J. Reynolds, owned by RJR Nabisco Inc., began using the camel to revive the brand in 1988, it has insisted that the mascot is used only to entice adult smokers to switch brands.

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