confetti

主要指庆祝活动中抛撒的彩纸碎片，也可指传统意大利婚礼上的糖衣杏仁；作动词时表示向某人或某处撒彩纸。

💡 记忆钩子

把庆典现场想成一场“糖果雨”：意大利人原先抛撒糖衣杏仁，后来用像糖果一样的小纸片代替，于是这种彩纸叫作 confetti；作动词就是让某人或某处沾上这场彩纸雨。

📝 学习建议

先掌握庆典中“彩纸碎片”这一常用义，再把糖衣杏仁义当作文化背景义记忆。
不要把 confetti 泛指所有礼物、装饰品或普通纸片；它通常特指庆祝时抛撒的细小彩纸等材料。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 庆典彩纸

📖 指庆祝活动中抛撒的许多小片或细条彩纸，也可以是金属、石膏等制成的类似小片；婚礼和胜利庆祝中尤其常见。这个词强调的是“像糖果雨一样被撒开的庆典碎片”。

💡 常见结构是“throw/scatter confetti at/over someone or something”，也可说“confetti falls/rains down”。confetti 通常作不可数名词，动词搭配用单数形式；不要把它误当作一张完整的装饰纸。

uncountable

Guests threw confetti over the couple as they left the ceremony.

新人离开仪式现场时，宾客们把彩纸撒向他们。

Bright confetti rained down after the team won the final.

球队赢得决赛后，鲜艳的彩纸纷纷落下。
rare 糖衣杏仁

📖 指传统意大利婚礼等场合使用的糖衣杏仁；这是较少见的文化义项，可以看作最初被抛撒的“糖果”本身。

💡 常见于介绍意大利婚礼传统的文字中，通常与表示糖果或婚礼习俗的词连用。这个义项在现代一般英语中很少单独出现，阅读历史或文化材料时再根据上下文确认，不要默认它指彩纸。

rare uncountable

verb

common 撒彩纸装点

📖 表示向某人或某处撒彩纸，使其被彩纸覆盖或装点；它就是把名词所代表的“彩纸雨”变成一个动作。

💡 使用时直接接宾语，如“confetti the stage”或“confetti the winners”，也可用被动结构表示某处被撒满彩纸。该动词带有明显的庆祝色彩，不能泛指撒盐、撒种子等普通动作；多数场合用更常见的“throw”或“scatter”更自然。

transitive

The volunteers confettied the stage before the awards ceremony.

颁奖典礼前，志愿者们在舞台上撒满了彩纸。

confettis present,singular,third-person confettiing participle,present confettied participle,past confettied past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding)

同义词集: confetti

上位: paper

🌳 词源

源自意大利语 confetti，字面与“糖果、糖衣食品”有关；这种糖果后来被彩纸等仿制物代替，词义也随之扩展。

Borrowed (possibly via French) from Italian confetti (literally “confections”), used to describe sugar-coated almonds, and by extension things imitating them (like pellets of plaster), which were thrown in Italy during festivities like Carnival and weddings. (This practice is mentioned in English since at least the 1810s.) The French and the English adopted the practice of celebrating weddings and other festivities by throwing such candies, or (by the late 1800s) tiny pieces of colored paper symbolizing them, partially displacing their earlier practice of throwing rice.

🔄 变式

confettied past confettiing present confettis present

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