bacchanalian: [16] Bákkhos was the Greek god of wine. Son of Zeus and Semele, he was also known as Diónūsos. The Romans adopted him, amending his name to Bacchus, and his worshippers went in for a brand of licentious revelry, in his honour, known as Bacchanalia. Hence the metaphorical application of the English adjective to anything drunkenly orgiastic.
bacchanalian (adj.)
1560s; see bacchanalia + -an. As a noun from 1610s.
双语例句
1. Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.
尼禄皇(罗马暴君)参加了狂饮的祭酒神仪式.
来自辞典例句
2. And Mardi Gras , today, is a boisterous, bacchanalian splurge of music and mayhem.
