英 [ˈsɜːkəs] 美 [ˈsɜːrkəs]
n. 马戏团，马戏演员；马戏表演；乱哄哄的人群，热闹的场面；圆形广场，环形交叉口；（古罗马）露天圆形竞技场
复数circuses
circus /ˈsɜːkəs/ CET6 TEM4
可数名词 A circus is a group that consists of clowns, acrobats, and animals that travels around to different places and performs shows. 马戏团
My real ambition was to work in a circus.
我真正的理想是去马戏团工作。
单数型名词 The circus is the show performed by these people. 马戏
My dad took me to the circus.
我爸爸带我去看马戏。
单数型名词 If you describe a group of people or an event as a circus, you disapprove of them because they attract a lot of attention but do not achieve anything useful. 闹剧
It could well turn into some kind of a media circus.
这很可能会发展成某种媒体闹剧。
a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
he ran away from home to join the circus
performance given by a traveling company of acrobats clowns and trained animals
the children always love to go to the circus
a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
it was so funny it was a circus
同义词： carnival
(antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games
an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent
they used the elephants to help put up the circus
a genus of haws comprising the harriers
同义词： genus Circus
马戏
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马戏团
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马戏；马戏团
My dad took me to the circus.
我爸爸带我去看马戏。
We took the children to the circus.
我们带孩子去看了马戏表演。
My real ambition was to work in a circus.
我真正的理想是去马戏团工作。
A circus moved from town to town, putting on shows with trained animals, acrobats doing difficult tricks, and funny, colorful clowns.
VOA : special.2009.01.11
He ended up on a circus sideshow traveling through the country with the big steel pipe that went through his head.
最终,在一个全国巡游的马戏团里,大钢管打烂了他的脑袋,结束了他的生命
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Yeah, so I mean, obviously Piccadilly Circus with the big screens is in so many films. Everybody knows it.
好的，显然地，大屏幕的皮卡迪利广场出现在很多电影里。所有人都知道它。
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For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.
VOA : special.2009.01.11
Anne Lindbergh described how women had to perform many jobs that pulled them in different directions like a circus performer.
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Sun Microsystems, the other ringleader of the anti-Microsoft circus, is also lagging in its efforts.
Locals argue over favorites, but the consensus is that Newton Circus is for tourists.
My question to you is, have you heard about this, about the whole circus of it?