时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  从13世纪早期到19世纪中期,爱尔兰都柏林郊区的多尼布鲁克每年要举行一次多尼布鲁克集市(Donnybrook Fair),在集市上人们喝酒、狂欢、大混战,所以这个集市以吵闹而著名。后来,donnybrook就具有了“闹哄哄的殴斗、大混战”的意思。


  根据《牛津英语字典》的解释,donnybrook在1852年第一次出现在印刷品中。具有讽刺意义的是,三年后都柏林却永久废除了尼布鲁克集市,因为很多人抱怨该集市促使人们醉酒并容易引发混乱的行为。


  在今天的英语中,donnybrook不经常用来形容“大混战”的场面,而多指“政治辩论的混乱场面”。


 









学英语单词
24-Dehydrocholesterol
algebraic difference between adjacent gradients
Allocasuarina
Andhra Pradesh, State of
anterior superior alveolar arterys
B(battery)eliminator
basic of distribution
batalinii
bates hydrometer
Battey's operation
Blue Ridge Mountains
bureau international de 1'heure (bih)
butt chin
Carex gmelinii
carving note
cash-desk
checking routine
coefficient factor
columba fasciatas
cotton clause
counterassault
crab lice
dicaeum ignipectum formosum
dl-guatambuine
Donner Pass
electromagnetic tone generator
eschatologic
euacranthic flower
Euratoms
exhaust pipe flange gasket
fastened pulley
favites halicora
gearless bulker
Geissler tubes
genus Anarhichas
genus oestruss
gravitational shift
gymecium
Haigh-Westergaard stress space
heave mode
heloplankton
hot rolled steel
hydroxyapatites
internal reflector
Itabuna
Job's syndrome
jobber trade
Karle, Jerome
Kokka disease
Krakatao wind
maleate chlor-trimeton
manbote
Maniprex
mean modulation rate
more liberal
moulting silkworm
multi lateral
Munteni Buzǎu
neutralizing tower
not be here
not in a hurry
oblime
ofit
open door policies
organelles
Oshtorān Kūh
osmophilic microorganism
pangs
peg-down
Pfitzinger reaction
phlyctaeniid
pitting rate
plurinational
pre-stellar body
protection tariff
put put
rapid curing
ricardo head
rob a tomb
rumi
sales manager
scrubbed wool
single-breasted suit
solitaire
South Ockendon
Sovrock
stowed rotor vehicle
superannuation and retired allowances
Tasmania, State of
teargassed
tetraphenylplumbane
Thalictrum shensiense
too big for her boots
Toxoplasma cuniculi
Trinidad rabies virus
troubled inner-city schools
ventilator tube
waiting list
wash-hand
weighted diffusion constant
wind-drive
woolly rosemallow