celebrate

UK:  ['selə.breɪt]

US:  ['selə.breɪt]

过去分词：celebrated  现在分词：celebrating  第三人称单数：celebrates  

v.

1.庆祝,欢庆;庆贺

2.庆祝;祝贺

3.举行(仪式);庆祝(胜利等)

4.举行宗教仪式[庆典]

5.庆幸

6.表扬,赞美,歌颂

7.〔口语〕欢宴作乐

8.公布,发表

9.实现

1 . It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus.
他到小比克布斯修女们的礼拜堂里来参加日课唱圣诗，那是常有的事。

2 . As the city begins to heat up for summer, some foreign residents will celebrate the beginning of the wet season in other Asian countries.
当这个城市因夏日来临而开始逐渐炎热的时候，一些外籍侨民将会在亚洲其它国家庆祝雨季的开始。

3 . Jews do not celebrate Christmas or any other Christian festivals per se as these have no religious significance to their beliefs.
犹太人并不庆祝圣诞节或者是其他任何的基督教节日，他们的信仰本质上没有宗教象征。

4 . Four centuries, two centuries, and one-and-a-half centuries: 2009 offers a fine excuse to celebrate two of the great iconoclasts of history.
四百年，二百年，一百五十年：2009年，我们有足够的理由去纪念历史上这两座伟大的里程碑。

5 . This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
这就是埃及的刑罚和那不上来守住棚节之列国的刑罚。