field day

短语

野外实习日, 户外集会, 体育比赛日

发音

AU

词形变化

field days 复数 field days

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).

    政治 军事
  2. 2.

    A school day for athletic events.

    美国
  3. 3.

    A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.

  4. 4.

    A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.

    习语

    They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings.

  5. 5.

    A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.

    习语

    The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.

    The scandal was a field day for the press.

  6. 6.

    A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.

    美国 政治 军事

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

picnic outing

上位词 6

day period vacation holiday period of time time period

词源

Some postulate the idiomatic usage is derived from the "parade day" military use. A parade is much easier than the soldiers’ usual drilling and intense exercise.

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