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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adjustable-pitch airscrew
adjustment room
aerospaceplane
ambulancewomen
art-forms
autumn molt
B-Iymphocytes
ball head lock nut
be astir with
be in practice
beleaguring
BH macro
blacketts
Bugs Bunny
building and fixed equipment
bushlips,Bushlips
caroche
catorama
centrings
Chatty Cathy
chromatographic characterization
cleaner-separator
code reds
comprehensive plan
contact alloying
credit goes to
crooningly
cross curve of stability
CRT edit function
current-mode switch
dare-to-die corps
defiguring
Donne's butter
electron-positron pair
enniss
enquiry character sequence
entropic doom
epidemic gangrene
ferrotherapy
figure of fun
film surface
forward speed
gorked
high-flying
humidity test
hydrometeorologist
in dictione
inimical bacteria
initial guidance of interplanetary flight
input-output device
intranet security
label number
laminated wrapping
laundry issuance room
lepi
Lux.
Manangbhot
marvered
monteths
nAChR
Nasmyth telescope
natural bit
nonstratiform
oil handle
ooencyrtus kuvanae
overcomplimented
Oyster cards
permanent luminescent material
polymorphic locus
pragmaticists
procede
pseudogamous
pseudopodial movement
put the squeeze on
quadrangular prisms
quantizing noise
radiotheodolite recording receiver
regenerative life support system
retinopathies
Roegneria hirtiflora
Sea Bright
self grinding machine
soybean protein
sphenoid angle
spot-backed antshrike
staging station
Strandlooper
sugarallie
T-immun
Teshoo Lama
testest
tracheobronchial lymph nodes
transgress a treaty
transient characteristic
unpictured
valen
var. n. occipitalis tertius
vulnerale
waut
wet meadow
xenoikic texture