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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Akaszto
apparent tax
Arnhem Land
automatic generator control system
Barnaviridae
begazed
bentyl
blennogenous
brandstanding
bryan
cartridge type pump
centre-crank arrangement
compact disc - video
cyberfeminism
Daily margin
depite
disseminatde myelitis
drill body
dug on
Dumbraveni
dummy parameter concatenation
ECPNL
elastic
emergency stop
euhemeristic
european black alders
evangelicalism
examination of the voir dire
exterior surface
faal
feel like making love
fibre distribution
fixed landing gear
full duplex computers
gage tank
Genesee County
genus chrysospleniums
genus lentinuss
hallmates
Hendersonville
iasis
idiopathic megacolon
independent culling method
indigenous fuel
Kanjobal
kimbel
Laranda
lay something out
long interspersed repeated sequences
lubricant dope
lymph-varices
mairy
micro-ampere
minus FF
model state
Newf.
Nobex
northern baptist conventions
OAU,O.A.U.
one's good genius
operational term
opeway
oxyphiles
peculiar wave
period of prescription
pinhole borer
piping chamber
polyether sulphone (PES)
popovics
PPPI
preference duty
pressure parting
prosy
Pteramine
rectangular voltage
revenue adjustment
screwed them
sea-rover
sewing leather palm
sextuple-flow turbine
Shafranovo
single-phase two-limb core
single-spindle boring machine
Srednebelaya
statutory voting
Stearn's alcoholic amentia
striking contrast
tarafa
tarzans of the apes
tascams
tavernman
tectomorphic texture
trichocladium pyriforme
tympanichord
unadoptable
upright fan structure
weigh the thumb
weiwen
wernicke
Woman's Journal
word structure
YBR