This festival is a cheerful occasion, for on this day, the dead are said to return to their homes and they are welcomed by the living.
这个节日是个欢乐的日子，因为在这一天，据说死去的人要回到他们的家里来，活着的人则对他们表示欢迎。
新概念英语第二册
Lesson 96 The dead return
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 节日;节期;贺宴，会演;
adj. 节日的，喜庆的;
💡 fest节目+iv=ive节日的+al表名词 → 节目，宴会
"the Cannes film festival"
戛纳电影节
近义：holiday, celebration, fair, festivity, fete, festal
adj. 欢乐的，高兴的;令人愉快的;
💡 cheer欢乐+ful表形容词，“有…的” →快乐的
"You're not your usual cheerful self today."
你今天不像往常那么快快乐乐的。
近义：lively, happy, jaunty, jocular, jolly, jovial
反义：heartbroken, heartsick, hopeless, inconsolable, melancholic, melancholy
v. 回转，返回;复发，又来;送还;言归正传;
n. 归来，返乡;来回，汇成;赢利;统计表;
💡 re回，向后+turn转→回来，返回
"The students return in October for the start of the new academic year."
学生于十月返校，开始新学年的学习。
近义：reappear, reenter, regress, redeliver, redintegrate, refund
反义：migrate, absquatulate, retire, retreat, scat, transmigrate
adj. 活（着）的;现存的;在使用中的;逼真的;
n. 生计;生活方式;生存之道;
v. 活( live的现在分词);居住;以…为生;（按照规矩）管理生活;
💡 liv生活+ing名词后缀 → 生活，生计
"The prisoners were living in appalling conditions."
囚犯的居住条件极为恶劣。
近义：livelihood, sustenance, live, quickened, surviving, alive
反义：inert, insentient, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, unfeeling
n. 机会，时机;场合;理由;需要;
vt. 惹起，引起;
💡 oc(to)+cas(case事情)+ion(名缀):快到事情的一刹那- 时机 oc(=ob=before)+cas(=fall落下):落下前的一刹那- 机会
"The wedding was an occasion of great festivity."
这个婚礼是喜庆盛事。
近义：justify, make, carry, cause, effect, merit