English Dictionary

cirque

/sɜːk/

noun

(geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley. / (dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus.

The acrobats performed amazing stunts in the cirque.

意味（1）

(geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.

[stanza 22] […] Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? toads in a poisoned tank, / Or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage— / [stanza 23] The fight must so have seemed in that fell cirque.

意味（2）

(dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring, such as a Roman circus.

Nero exhibited theſe Spectacles in his own Gardens, impiouſly joining to them the Diverſions of the Cirque, and appearing himſelf publicly in the Habit of a Charioteer, ſitting in his Chariot; which yet the People entertain'd more with Pity than Pleaſure, knowing that they were not done for the publick Benefit, but meerly to gratifie his own private Rage and Malice. Thus barbarouſly were the Chriſtians treated at Rome; […]