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
accessibility index
actuating coil
aluminum-oxygen-phosphorus polymer
alveolite
amiga user group
amphora javanica
analog form
ask a favour
bacalaos
boat-propeller gear
broadsidest
brunelli
bugwood
business relating to servicing of bonds
circumtropical
clambe
cleeves
cloud liquid water content
coffin dodger
commandants
condictio rei furtivae
council area
decimal fraction
deez
dip plane
discontinuous timing
dispatch network
dispersed complex fibre
Dolno Kamartsi
down lead(leading in wire)
edmund hillaries
Ejisu
EO-CFC
epoxycholesterol
field leakage coefficient
GI'd
go-around control system
grandog
health tax
heavy harrow
heebeegeebees
hogback mountain
hypoalkalinity
inoendothelioma
intermediate ligature
intersecting line
Kir.
literary contest
louvre lighting
Margaret Of Austria
marrieds
measuring cup filling machine
meddies
member company
memory of childhood
meso-halophyte
mesocoele
metaservices
microcline twin law
mitzvoth
nemaline myopathy
occupied zone
parallel mutation
peak height response
personal therapy
play a
plutonium production reactor
port policy
positive draft
preased
public-services
request strategy
research aerodynamicist
restationed
rotary off-normal contact
safe-c
saturated loading capacity
semantic differential
semilog model
shit-stirrers
similable
Sountel
statess
strongylium ohmomoi
substance 248
sunset time
super-strong stimulus
symphysis ligamentosa
tail gate step
tally certificate
tetrachordos
total tosser
transient magnetic field
unbeheld
unmalleable
unrepaying
vaginoscopies
valid user virtual address space
valley point current
vannier
Wilburn
writ large