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

• During their summer holidays they cruised further afield to Normandy and Brittany.
  暑期他们乘船到更远的诺曼底和布列塔尼游览。
• Family holidays are meant to be a break from routine.
  家庭假日就是从平淡的日常生活中解脱一下。
• During the Christmas holidays there's a tremendous amount of traffic between the Northeast and Florida
  在圣诞假日期间，东北地区和佛罗里达州之间的交通十分繁忙。
• Their mother's illness cast a damp over the holidays.
  母亲的病使他们在假日中很扫兴。
• It is a commonplace fact that holidays are a major test of any relationship
  度假对任何恋爱关系都是重大考验，这是常识。
• Holidays are for seeing the sights, hearing the language and savouring the smells.
  度假是为了赏风景之美，听语言之妙，品百味之香。
• For foreign holidays you will need a valid passport
  出国度假需持有效护照。
• 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 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。
• 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。