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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allotment system
alloy junction phototransistor
antihacking
appropriate measures
baroceptor
barytone
bi-pack
Bostra
bow beam
cannon balls
chemical cellulose
clothes tree
Cojedes
colpotherm
composite trailer
contentable
cut away view
dead weight testing machine
demagnetizes
dentinogenic fibers
diphosphide
disability clause
disavowments
dogmatic theology
Dos Passos, John Roderigo
edge banding
endoplasmic reticulum vesicle
erroneous arrest
exophytic
fallout contours
farmstands
front lamp
glucagon
good bye
gunny bag
head corner of rail
high voltage arc
hob-type magnetron
Holton
injury of sciatic nerve
interlobitis
kine(to)-
kirksite
land ... with
lanthanide elements
large scale chart
Ligustrum retusum
lip-reflex
Mandelin reagent
manouvering board
Maracci's muscle
mediterranean agriculture
meme-complexes
milk sickness
mucously
multiple diameter drill
off-peak power
original style
Oxfordish
pick her up
postpostion
power bus-bar
preliminarily enjoins
premeditate
putong (philippines)
quinonoid compound
reel rotation pulse
resistents
respiratory column
reterence waveform
rice character design
riddled with holes
rudaceous rocks
sakebiose
Savage R.
SBTD
self-construal
set by for further consideration
sialo-adenitis
signman
simulated annealing method
skirt steaks
smell a rat
solid oil
space-filling model
stall propagation
star-clusters
static induction thyristor
Ste. -Foy
supervital reaction
Tariffville
template holder
terminal prompt mode
the economist
Thomson's fascia
three finger rule
total physical response
ultrasonic noise
undestructive
unlapsed
Veiros
withdrawers