carnival

n. 狂欢节，嘉年华会；饮宴狂欢

中文词源

carnival 嘉年华

来自拉丁短语carne levare（同lever, 举起）, 把肉收起来，绝食。原指基督教40天大斋期前的狂欢，后俗化为carne vale, 与肉说再见，-val, 力量，词源同value, valediction(临别致辞，祝好，再见)。

carnival: carnival: [16] Etymologically, carnival means ‘raising flesh’ – that is, the ‘removal of meat’ from the diet during Lent (carnival was originally a period of merrymaking preceding Lent). It comes from medieval Latin carnelevāmen, a compound noun made up of carō ‘flesh’ (source of English carnal) and levāmen, a derivative of the verb levāre ‘lighten, raise’ (source of English lever, levity, and levy).
=> carnal, carrion, lever, levy
carnival (n.): 1540s, "time of merrymaking before Lent," from French carnaval, from Italian carnevale "Shrove Tuesday," from older Italian forms such as Milanese *carnelevale, Old Pisan carnelevare "to remove meat," literally "raising flesh," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage) + levare "lighten, raise, remove" (see lever (n.)). Folk etymology is from Medieval Latin carne vale " 'flesh, farewell!' " Meaning "a circus or fair" is attested by 1931 in North America.

carnival：嘉年华就是从这个词音译的——狂欢节。

1. The avenues lined with jacaranda trees burst into a carnival of purple.: 大街的两旁种着蓝花楹，绽放的花朵汇成一片紫色的海洋。

2. The countdown to the Notting Hill Carnival is in its final hours.: 诺丁山狂欢节已经进入了最后几个小时的倒计时。