orgy

英 [ˈɔːdʒi]

美 [ˈɔːrdʒi]

n.  奢靡的聚会; 狂欢会; 放纵; 放荡

复数：orgies　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14476 / COCA.15880

牛津词典

noun

• 奢靡的聚会；狂欢会
  a party at which there is a lot of eating, drinking and sexual activity
  1. a drunken orgy
     纵酒狂欢会
• 放纵；放荡
  an extreme amount of a particular activity
  1. The rebels went on an orgy of killing.
     叛乱者肆意杀人。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （尤指纵欲的）狂欢聚会
  Anorgyis a party in which people behave in a very uncontrolled way, especially one involving sexual activity.
  1. It was reminiscent of a scene from a Roman orgy.
     这一幕让人想起古罗马荒淫的狂欢宴会。
  2. ...a drunken orgy.
     纵酒狂欢会
• N-COUNT 放纵；无节制
  You can refer to an activity as anorgyof that activity to emphasize that it is done to an excessive extent.
  1. One eyewitness said the rioters were engaged in an orgy of destruction...
     一位目击者称暴徒肆无忌惮地到处进行破坏。
  2. He blew £533,000 in an 18-month orgy of spending.
     他在18个月的奢靡生活中挥霍了533,000英镑。

英英释义

noun

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
  Synonym:debauchdebaucherysaturnaliariotbacchanalbacchanaliadrunken revelry
• secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
• any act of immoderate indulgence
  1. an orgy of shopping
  2. an emotional binge
  3. a splurge of spending
  Synonym:bingesplurge

双语例句

• Instead, recruitment is often an orgy of hyperbole.
  而事实上，招聘常常是没边儿的夸张。
• I indulged in an orgy of housework.
  我整天埋在干不完的家务堆里。
• Christmas, for many people, involves an orgy of spending, which is good for the economy.
  对许多人来说，圣诞节就意味着纵情狂欢地去购物，这对于经济大有好处。
• In1921, the year he became the first comic actor to make$ 1 million a year, he was accused of raping and murdering an actress during an orgy at a San Francisco hotel.
  1921年，大胖阿巴克尔成为第一位年挣百万美金的喜剧演员后，他被指控在旧金山饭店的一次狂欢中强奸并谋杀了一名女演员。
• When my ex-wife and I socialised it was with mutual friends or business contacts, and last weekend was an orgy of boredom.
  我前妻和我的社交圈子都是我们共同的朋友或有业务往来的人，而上周末则是令人厌倦的狂欢。
• I always leave before the orgy.
  我总是在他们纵欲前离开。
• A former executive of the hotel where the orgy took place and a nightclub manager received life sentences.
  狂欢发生一位夜总会经理被一般承认的无期徒刑的旅馆一个前主管。
• She indulged in an orgy of spending. I love this place while the place loves us generously.
  她爱好大把大把地花钱。我爱恋着这里，这里也以博大的爱爱着我们。
• The most expensive orgy in history was over, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of the 1929 Wall Street crash.
  美国作家F•司各特•菲茨杰拉德（F.SCOTTFITZGERALD）针对1929年的华尔街崩盘写道，历史上最昂贵的狂欢结束了。
• This is an orgy of evidence.
  这是我们称为证据泛滥。