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.
雙語例句
1. Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.
尼祿皇(羅馬暴君)參加了狂飲的祭酒神儀式.
來自辭典例句
2. And Mardi Gras , today, is a boisterous, bacchanalian splurge of music and mayhem.