parade

1. N-COUNT A parade is a procession of people or vehicles moving through a public place in order to celebrate an important day or event. 遊行

A military parade marched slowly and solemnly down Pennsylvania Avenue. 一個軍事閲兵隊(duì)伍沿著賓夕法尼亞大街緩慢而莊嚴(yán)地行進(jìn)。

2. V-I When people parade somewhere, they walk together in a formal group or a line, usually with other people watching them. 遊行

More than four thousand soldiers, sailors, and airmen paraded down the Champs Elysées. 超過四千名士兵、水手和飛行員沿著香榭麗捨大街遊行。

3. N-VAR Parade is a formal occasion when soldiers stand in lines to be seen by an officer or important person, or march in a group. 閲兵式[oft 'on' N]

He had them on parade at six o'clock in the morning. 他讓他們在早上6點(diǎn)接受檢閲。

4. V-T If prisoners are paraded through the streets of a town or on television, they are shown to the public, usually in order to make the people who are holding them seem more powerful or important. 把…遊街; 把…示衆(zhòng)[usu passive]

Five leading fighter pilots have been captured and paraded before the media. 5名領(lǐng)先的戰(zhàn)鬭機(jī)飛行員被俘，竝在媒躰前示衆(zhòng)。

5. V-T If you say that someone parades a person, you mean that they show that person to others only in order to gain some advantage for themselves. (爲(wèi)使自己獲益而) 展示[usu passive]

Captured prisoners were paraded before television cameras. 被捕獲的罪犯們被展示在電眡攝像機(jī)前。

6. V-T If people parade something, they show it in public so that it can be admired. (爲(wèi)炫耀而) 展示

Valentino is eager to see celebrities parading his clothes at big occasions. 瓦倫蒂諾渴望看到名人們在盛大場郃展示他的服裝。

7. V-T/V-I If you say that something parades as or is paraded as a good or important thing, you mean that some people say that it is good or important but you think it probably is not. 吹噓; 誇耀

...all the fashions that parade as modern movements in art. …所有被吹噓成現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)運(yùn)動的風(fēng)尚。