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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a-n signal a-n
air flux
apertura labyrinthica canaliculi cochleae
Bacillus breslaviensis
Bad Schussenried
Banka tin
Bauer's method staining
because of you
bedding planes
bit grinding
blade restoring mechanism
Busdorf
CAN cancel
casual relationship
central processing unit
chemical flocculation
climatic cycle
colonyforming unitmegakaryocyte
cornua rhinoceri pallidum
corpsperson
Corynebacterium granulosum
Dame Rebecca West
dark-brown
datiscetin
de novo synthesis
Dicentra canadensis
did the dishes
direct draw
dor beetle
dual elevator
Dvr., dvr
excess thermodynamic function
folk school
frequency dispersion
fuel injection rate
fuel loading authorization
fuster
generalized current density
genus erythrocebuss
genus zonotrichias
golden-eyed
heavy and crude oil engine
HIAD
hormonal insecticide
ileac
inanite
index system
International Ship Electric Service Association
invites in
isolation technique
jaunter
jintao
kaeser
log/bulk carrier
Long Huong
long sleeve
material quantity
meisje
mejicanos
mold cure
moretz
morihiro
multidowncomer tray
notices to mariners
ocean air interface
oversimplification
parascutules
perpendicular
philtred
pongies
ramanujam
range of audibility
reddish black
reserve wagon
riboswitch
ridge runner
road sweeper
sail
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selfcorresponding
seventh grades
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solid state vidicon
steatocele
Streptococcus salivarius
subnatant
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taunters
tcpo2
thaumatoptyx alloptyx
tortoise-shelled turtle
Trinitarianism
ultra-centrifuge
umbellet
v beot drive
vdrl
vibrator-type inverter
vindicts
visible and infrared spin scan radiometer
wheels
withhold ... consent
Xenorhyncus asiaticus