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”。


 









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absorbing mechanism
air filtration unit
Amatista
an accident
Arabidopsis lyrata
Artedius
bating drum
bellows gauge
cabinetable
chromogeneicity
chronic prostatitis
contraction in multiplication
crop duster
cryptographic machine
Cupressaceae
curious george
custerism
darkrooms
dhac
diffusion-limited current density
drop shock test machine
dynal
ecoconscious
equation of sphere
ethyl propyl ether
formed cable
grafting of pedicled tendon
ground-based lidar
hellhole
Heparegene
hepatic siderosis
hexacanthus
hexoxide
high-frequency compensation
hrmb
hyperchloridation
impreventable
industrial reserves
interior function
isi (intersymbol interference)
jerkbait
kanza
Kikondja
Lafond's Tables
lay a finger on someone
leveraged bid
Lianga B.
lifehouse
Lower Arrow L.
lower-shaft
Macroclinidium verticillatum
macroregulatory measures
mamillate
mechernichite(bravoite)
microwave coagulation
modern delegation of power doctrine
molestate
mould insulation
moviestars
Muang Sam Sip
neck brace
nondebate
old test
on the spoon
otolaryngologic pathology
phycitol
Phytomonadina
presidaries
prismlike
ragmans
rectilinear current
regrets only
renegadoes renegade
resource exploitation
roturbo
run ahead of one's reckoning
schmendrick
shoto
single phase flow
slut-bag
sound-pictures
spar-tree
speculable
sprocket eaves
streptovirudin
suction firing
syndrome differentiation of excess and deficiency
talusin
toad-stool
Torsminde
trachinocephalus myops
Transparent operating system
transparent silica glass
valence alternation pair
very substantial acquisition
vicar-apostolic
walks all over
water fog sprinkler
waterproof sandpaper
weighted minimax algorithm
wrns
yellowwood