merry的意思|merry的解释-里氏词典

merry ['meri]

a. 快乐的, 愉快的, 嬉戏作乐的

merry
merrier, merriest

[ adj ]

full of or showing high-spirited merriment

<adj.all>

when hearts were young and gay

a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company

the jolly crowd at the reunion

jolly old Saint Nick

a jovial old gentleman

have a merry Christmas

peals of merry laughter

a mirthful laugh

offering fun and gaiety

<adj.all>

a festive (or festal) occasion

gay and exciting night life

a merry evening

quick and energetic

<adj.all>

a brisk walk in the park

a lively gait

a merry chase

traveling at a rattling rate

a snappy pace

a spanking breeze

Merry \Mer"ry\ (m[e^]r"r[y^]), n. (Bot.)
A kind of wild red cherry.

Merry \Mer"ry\, a. [Compar. {Merrier}; superl. {Merriest}.] [OE.
merie, mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige,
pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short,
Goth. gama['u]rgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who
cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the
Anglo-Saxon and English meanings coming from the idea of
making the time seem short. Cf. {Mirth}.]
1. Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good
spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play; sportive.

They drank, and were merry with him. --Gen. xliii.
34.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. --Shak.

2. Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.

Is any merry? let him sing psalms. --Jas. v. 13.

3. Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, a merry
jest. ``Merry wind and weather.'' --Spenser.

{Merry dancers}. See under {Dancer}.

{Merry men}, followers; retainers. [Obs.]

His merie men commanded he
To make him bothe game and glee. --Chaucer.

{To make merry}, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to
feast with mirth. --Judg. ix. 27.

Syn: Cheerful; blithe; lively; sprightly; vivacious; gleeful;
joyous; mirthful; jocund; sportive; hilarious.

There were merry widow dresses too, complete with music-hall tights that had lace and garter effects under the full, bouncy skirts.
They should provide particularly good material for his special brand of merry meyhem.
"It won't be a very merry Christmas."
Art director Jon Hutman makes the broken-down St Louis factory a merry hell of rusting girders, dangling cables, splintered windows.
For many American workers, the holiday season is a time to make merry at office parties, not to worry about changing jobs.
Before you can say "plot device," a man at the airport who smells like musk _ no kidding _ is hit by that deadly slow-moving car, and we're on our merry way.
Bournonville's heroines are characteristically mischievous, merry and irresistibly feminine, soubrette roles rather than ballerina ones.
During evening breaks, they make merry, mingling at starlet-spangled parties with beer and notepad in one hand and pen in the other.
The trouble is that just when the evening draws to close in a merry haze, you know he's going to turn round and say: 'It's on you.' At the outset both the gilts and the equity market loved the Budget.
Starting in the 1870s, many Nordic painters decamped there each summer, forming a sort of artists' colony where they would paint and make merry. The Skagen painters are known particularly for their treatment of light.
The Maximum Leader himself also is merry.
Until the very end of the old year, it looked as though nothing could prevent a happy new year from following a very merry Christmas. There is no shortage of bullish forecasts for 1994.
A suburban community is toasting the upcoming visit of Mikhail S. Gorbachev by slashing the price of Soviet vodka _ a libation banned by another municipality when East-West relations weren't so merry.
Hordes of tourists visit the Sherwood Forest Center where they can see displays of medieval lifestyles and gaze at the oak tree where the merry men may or may not have relaxed after a hard day's archery.
A merry romp about which I have absolutely no philosophical reservations is "Daugherty & Field Off-Broadway," a sparkling two-man revue at the Double Image Theater in Soho.
In the interviews with Moyers, which took place in the last year of his life, he was cheerful, merry and passionate about his life and his battle.
Other works - Rake's Progress; Checkmate; the merry Prospect Before Us, which ought to be revived - testify to her dramatic assurance and sense of character in movement.
Indeed, we all can enjoy a merry Christmas and a happy New Year." Masked Palestinians shot and axed to death a suspected collaborator Thursday in the crowded Casbah, or old market, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Arab reporters said.
But handle things the Giants have, because the pitchers who showed up had posted a 3.29 earned run average through Saturday, the NL's second best, while the hitters have whacked away at a merry clip.
Published by this city in March, the pamphlet offered a revisionist look at the intrepid outlaw's merry band, claiming that Friar Tuck never existed and that Robin and Maid Marian never met.
One could almost hear the maverick making merry with his oboe at the welcome news.

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