confetti

名词 confetti:

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

1. It was billed as "the mother of all parades." And the organizers had promised that12 million pounds of confetti, a million yellow ribbons and6,000 tons of ticker tape would be dropped on the veterans returning from the Persian Gulf war ...
   它被秒为“一切游行之母”。主办间单位承诺将投掷1200万磅彩色碎纸，100万条黄丝带，还有6000吨白色纸条[欢迎]自波斯湾战争归来的战士 ... 。

con.fet.ti

pl.n.(used with a sing. verb)（复数名词）（与单数动词连用）
Small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are scattered around during the course of festive occasions:
碎花纸：在欢庆时节撒落的彩色碎纸片或纸条：
例句：
Confetti covers the floor every year on January .
每年月日，五彩纸屑撒得到处都是

来源：
Italian [pl. of] confetto [candy]
意大利语 [] confetto的复数 [糖果]
from Medieval Latin cônfectum
源自 中世纪拉丁语 cônfectum
neuter of Latin cônfectus [past participle of] cônficere [to prepare] * see confect
拉丁语 cônfectus的中性词 [] cônficere的过去分词 [准备] *参见 confect