Какво означава spectacle на английски?

Можете да научите spectacle произношение, граматика и синоними в този най-авторитетен английски речник.

spectacle Значение & определение

0 an unusual or unexpected event or situation that attracts attention, interest, or disapproval:
- It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
- We witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of an elderly lady climbing a tree to rescue her cat.
1 a public event or show that is exciting to watch:
- The carnival was a magnificent spectacle.
- The television show was mere spectacle (= had an exciting appearance, but little value).
2 glasses:
- a pair of spectacles
- steel-rimmed spectacles
3 relating to spectacles (= glasses):
- a spectacle case
- He developed the market for plastic spectacle lenses.
- Why do spectacle frames cost so much?
- The number of spectacle wearers in the UK is growing.
4 an unusual or unexpected event or situation that attracts attention:
- an amazing/terrible spectacle
- The trial became a public spectacle.
- She made a spectacle of herself (= behaved in a way that attracted attention and made her look ridiculous).
5 a large public event or show:
- The fireworks were a magnificent spectacle.

Their metre is a sort of rearguard strategy of seeing the modern world through spectacles which that world has actually broken.
Continual engagement, rather than occasional confrontation, with civic spectacles provided the dukes with opportunities for the theatrical exercise of power.
However, there is an agonizing choice to make between at least two pairs of spectacles we might wear to take this critical look.
A welder with a serious expression and dark spectacles sits opposite me, working intently.
European travellers appear to have supplied the script for spectacles they did not fully understand.
Under these conditions the subject rapidly obtains a bistable form of adaptation, adapted to both wearing and not wearing the spectacles.
Lawyers and courts provided additional public space in which abduction spectacles could be produced.
The spectacles, like the baby, just won't stay still.