circus
马戏团,马戏班
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Definitions
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plural cir·cus·es.
- : a large public entertainment, typically presented in one or more very large tents or in an outdoor or indoor arena, featuring exhibitions of pageantry, feats of skill and daring, performing animals, etc., interspersed throughout with the slapstick antics of clowns.Compare big top.
- : a troupe of performers, especially a traveling troupe, that presents such entertainments, together with officials, other employees, and the company's performing animals, traveling wagons, tents, cages, and equipment.
- : anything resembling such public entertainments, as an event or activity that is wildly active, disordered, sensational, etc.: That whole trial was a circus.
- : a circular arena surrounded by tiers of seats, in which public entertainments are held; arena.
- : a large, usually oblong or oval, roofless enclosure, surrounded by tiers of seats rising one above another, for chariot races, public games, etc.an entertainment given in this Roman arena, as a chariot race or public game: The Caesars appeased the public with bread and circuses.
- : anything resembling the Roman circus, or arena, as a natural amphitheater or a circular range of houses.
- : flying circus.
- : British. an open circle, square, or plaza where several streets converge: Piccadilly Circus.
- : Obsolete. a circlet or ring.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Gaga personalized the anthem but still sang it simply, without a circus of musical tricks.
Walsh first covered the country for the Guardian and later for the New York Times, reporting on what he describes as its “multi-ringed circus of violence.”
Next, as some attacked Lewis and Christiansen for undemocratic art removal, others lauded them for taking decisive action to shut down a circus.
Almost literally a sideshow, as in a circus, where the center ring is occupied by the main event and the rings off to the side are populated by the lesser acts.
By 2017, the effort to create an experimental underwater vortex circus had paid off with proof of what happens to helicity in the real world.
It helps that the circus is like a family—only one that can choose its members.
The circus is now performing 18 shows around the world, with eight performances in Las Vegas alone each night.
In 1870, the very Germanically-named August Ruengling fixed a harness for a circus rider and obtained free passes for his family.
Circus parades often became as large a sight as the performance itself; one Barnum and Bailey parade stretched for three miles.
The modern era of the circus is inseparable from several names you may have encountered.
There were five men and three women in the troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.