For example, the word circus is used to describe any noisy place with a lot of activities going on.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
He ended up on a circus sideshow traveling through the country with the big steel pipe that went through his head.
最终,在一个全国巡游的马戏团里,大钢管打烂了他的脑袋,结束了他的生命
Yeah, so I mean, obviously Piccadilly Circus with the big screens is in so many films. Everybody knows it.
好的,显然地,大屏幕的皮卡迪利广场出现在很多电影里。所有人都知道它。
Anne Lindbergh described how women had to perform many jobs that pulled them in different directions like a circus performer.
VOA: special.2009.06.28
And the hippodrome, which becomes the circus in Latin-- that's just the Latin translation of hippodrome, because as you'll see, Romans started adopting a lot of these, which were originally Greek institutions, into their society also.
后来赛马场到了拉丁语里变成了马戏表演场-,那是拉丁语对赛马场的翻译,你们以后会学到,罗马人采纳了很多,原本希腊式的制度,融入了他们的社会。
The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
VOA: special.2010.08.01
He was in the circus going around the country with his big iron rod telling everybody the story as they surrounded him and clapped.
他跟着马戏团全国巡演,带着他的大铁棒,告诉大家这个故事,观众们围着他并鼓掌。
And if the room is really noisy, she may say it is a three ring circus.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Well, I guess we're going to have to see how it unfolds, but hopefully we will start to do circus
我们准备看看能不能再做大,希望建起一个戏团,
The most celebrated American circus in the 1800s was P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth."
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Can you tell us about Piccadilly Circus?
你能给我们讲讲皮卡迪利广场吗?
She photographed men dressed as women, circus performers, and even patients with severe mental limitations.
VOA: special.2009.08.09
So the hippodrome is the circus in Latin.
所以赛马场就是拉丁语中的马戏表演场。
The circus has been popular for so long that it is not surprising that words and expressions connected with it are part of everyday speech.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
He ended up in the circus.
他最后来到了马戏团。
One of the most famous places in ancient Rome was the Circus Maximus.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Now they rode this wild horse of a boat like circus men.
VOA: special.2010.03.06
"What circus act we women perform every day of our lives.
VOA: special.2009.06.28
They also went to the circus, the theater,and even to factories.
VOA: special.2009.11.15
Circus is a word with a long, interesting history.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Clowns are a very special part of the circus.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
It was about people who performed in the circus.
VOA: special.2009.05.31
She might say, "This place is a circus.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
The modern circus developed in the 19th century.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Barnum's circus had many new acts.
VOA: special.2009.01.11
Between events,just as in a circus, rodeo clowns act silly to entertain children in the audience.
VOA: standard.2010.01.25
Stimson says he worries that a civilian trial could become a circus if Mohammed tries to turn it into a propaganda event for al-Qaida.
VOA: standard.2009.11.25
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