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
acid-treated oil
Adonics
al-arab
animal welfarist
avermectins
avian enterovirus
B.T.S.
balse (philippines)
be shot of
brake beam hanger
Cintra
coaxial-waveguide output device
colour coordination
common schedule
commotio retinae
demonstration school
diploid nucleus
directional comparison system
Doctor and Nurse
dramatic art
dryopteris pseudolunanensis
duty paying value
earth fault current
edt.
elegiacs
embouchure
employee involvement
erithacuss
externally programmed computer
familial incidence
figeaters
Fitzjohn
fizz up
geomyids
gigaleurodes minahassai
Glucopostin
gonioctena (asiphytodecta) tredecimmaculata
great-great-
heptadecenoic
industrial air-conditioning
ironic phosphate
ISC (instruction length code)
jofa
justiceships
Kamenistaya, Bukhta
keep a good table
kephrinei
lairiest
laryngorrhea
left hand propeller
let me think
LF-RF
Li, Mae
magnetic cross valve
microtransaction
Midlobular
multi-perspective
Möng Hsat
Newtonianism
non-authoritarian
notice of enquiry
nylon base insulator
one-night-stand
optants
pedal pianoforte
pentamethylmelamine
pole-change motor starter
post a letter
proportional weir
puncture of dielectric
quadrant elevation fine synchrodata
quarantine peried
ramaker
relaxed synthesis
Resource Description Framework
retainer screw
Rhododendron fulgens
roly-poly filly
sanability
sat inwood
Sauropus tsiangii
self-evaluative
sensory nerve ending
share system
signaling effect of foreign exchange intervention
sour stomach
stepless
Stereocyst
synchronizing drum
tabellions
temperature-compensation
Thrixspermum amplexicaule
throw sth out
tightly coupled
tons displacement
Tysbær
unbribable
underprints
unsensing
vargo
wall post
zenith sun