holidays

英 [ˈhɒlədeɪz]

美 [ˈhɑːlədeɪz]

n.  假期; 度假期; 假日，节日(尤指宗教节日或国家庆典日)
v.  度假; 休假
holiday的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （外出度过的）假期
  Aholidayis a period of time during which you relax and enjoy yourself away from home. People sometimes refer to their holiday as theirholidays.
  1. I've just come back from a holiday in the United States...
     我刚从美国度假回来。
  2. We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday...
     我们打电话给邓肯，问他要去哪里度假。
  3. Ischia is a popular seaside holiday resort...
     伊斯基亚是个很受欢迎的海滨度假胜地。
  4. We're going to Scotland for our holidays.
     我们要去苏格兰度假。

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


• See also:New Year's Day is a public holiday throughout Britain...He invited her to spend the Fourth of July holiday at his summer home on Fire Island...Bad weather has caused dozens of flight cancellations over the holiday weekend.bank holiday
• N-PLURAL （学校的）假期
  The holidaysare the time when children do not have to go to school.
  1. ...the first day of the school holidays.
     学校放假的第一天

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


• N-UNCOUNT （不上班的）休假期
  If you have a particular number of days' or weeks'holiday, you do not have to go to work for that number of days or weeks.
  1. Every worker will be entitled to four weeks' paid holiday a year.
     每位工人每年都能享受4周的带薪休假。

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


• VERB （外出）度假
  If youare holidayingin a place away from home, you are on holiday there.
  1. Sampling the local cuisine is one of the delights of holidaying abroad...
     品尝当地菜肴是海外度假的乐趣之一。
  2. Vacant rooms on the campus were being used by holidaying families.
     校园里的闲置宿舍住着一些度假的家庭。

in AM, use 美国英语用 vacation


Take care not to confuseholidayandholidays.
注意不要混淆 holiday 和 holidays。

双语例句

• It was virtually impossible to synchronise our lives so as to take holidays and weekends together
  想让我们的生活步调保持一致好一起去度假和过周末几乎是不可能的事。
• She spends her Easter holidays taking groups of children to France
  她带领一群孩子去法国过复活节。
• I spent much of what I laughingly call 'the holidays' working through 621 pages of typescript
  我把我戏称为“假日”的大部分时间都花在那621页的打字稿上了。
• She had worked as a call centre operator making cold calls for time-share holidays.
  她曾经在话务中心当过话务员，负责打电话推销分时度假。
• He had suffered a serious case of food poisoning over the Christmas holidays.
  在圣诞假期里，他经历了一次严重的食物中毒。
• I prefer to go on self-catering holidays
  我喜欢膳食自助的度假。
• After the fun he's had during the holidays, the boy can't concentrate on his school work.
  放了几天假，这孩子的心都玩野了。
• There are strong arguments for holidays at Easter and Christmas because these are special occasions
  支持复活节和圣诞节放假是有充分论据的，因为这些节日都是特殊的时刻。
• She often does volunteer labour during holidays.
  放假时她常去参加义务劳动。
• Holidays can be horrendous. All right, I'll rephrase that. The first few days are invariably hell
  假期可能会糟糕透顶。好吧，让我换一种说法。最初的几天总是如同炼狱。