chautauqua

英 [tʃɔː'tɔːkwə; ʃ-] 美[ʃə'tɔkwə]
  • n. 夏季教育类户外集会;肖陶扩村

双语例句


1. The turning point in his life came when Carnegie encountered the Chautauqua movement.
比较:当卡耐基偶然碰上肖托夸夏季教育集会运动,他人生的转折点出现了.

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英文词源


Chautauqua
"assembly for popular education," 1873, from town in New York, U.S., where an annual Methodist summer colony featured lectures. The name is from ja'dahgweh, a Seneca (Iroquoian) name, possibly "one has taken out fish there," but an alternative suggested meaning is "raised body."