spree

英 [spri?] 美[spri]

低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?sprees;

spree 玩樂(lè)，狂歡

俚語(yǔ)，可能來(lái)自法語(yǔ) espirt,精神，生機(jī)勃勃，詞源同 spirit.引申詞義玩樂(lè)，狂歡。

spree (n.): "a frolic, drinking bout," 1804, slang, earliest use in Scottish dialect works, of uncertain origin. Perhaps [Barnhart] an alteration of French esprit "lively wit" (see esprit). According to Klein, Irish spre seems to be a loan-word from Old Norse sprakr. Watkins proposes a possible origin as an alteration of Scots spreath "cattle raid," from Gaelic sprédh, spré, "cattle; wealth," from Middle Irish preit, preid, "booty," ultimately from Latin praeda "plunder, booty" (see prey (n.)).
The splore is a frolic, a merry meeting. In the slang language of the inhabitants of St Giles's, in London, it is called a spree or a go. [Note in "Select Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern," vol. II, London, 1810]
In Foote's comedy "The Maid of Bath" (1794) the word appears as a Scottish dialect pronunciation of spry: " 'When I intermarried with Sir Launcelot Coldstream, I was en siek a spree lass as yoursel; and the baronet bordering upon his grand climacteric;' " etc.

2. Some Americans went on a spending spree in December to beat the new tax.: 一些美國(guó)人在12月瘋狂花錢(qián)，以避開(kāi)新稅。

3. After her shoplifting spree she lived in mortal dread of being found out.: 在商店連番行竊之后,她惶恐終日,害怕給人發(fā)現(xiàn).