0 an unusual or unexpected event or situation that attracts attention, interest, or disapproval -- 不寻常的事；出人意料的情况
1 a public event or show that is exciting to watch; an exciting appearance -- 壮观场面；壮观景象
The carnival was a magnificent spectacle. 嘉年华场面十分壮观。
The television show was mere spectacle (= had an exciting appearance, but little value). 这个电视节目只不过是场面壮观而已。
2 glasses -- 眼镜
a pair of spectacles 一副眼镜
steel-rimmed spectacles 钢框眼镜
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.
