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小词详解 | orgy
orgy 英 [ˈɔːdʒi] 美 [ˈɔːrdʒi]
Blue-chip stocks more than doubled in an orgy of debt-fuelled buying before crashing, landing not far from where they started.
加杠杆的买盘涌现,让蓝筹股翻了一倍还多,之后的暴跌使其股价差不多回落到最初的水平。
——《经济学人》They never built the intelligence into the business that would have cautioned them from this real estate orgy and would have kept them from the kind of exposure that they have now.
他们从来没有在公司中加入情报部门,而情报本可以提醒他们远离这场无节制的地产狂欢,也可以阻止他们遇到现在面临的这种风险。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 过分沉溺于某一特定活动中
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
这虽不幸但却是真实的:没金钱,无闲暇,爱情只不过是普通人的一次狂欢。它不是一时兴起的热情和幻想,而是一件令人扫兴的功利的事情。
surfeit: an excessive amount of something spree: a spell or sustained period of unrestrained activity of a particular kind binge: a short period devoted to indulging in an activity to excess, especially drinking alcohol or eating
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