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Pandemonium Word Pændi'məuniəm N.混战场,喧哗吵闹,喧嚣,大混乱,大吵大闹 Chaos Total Utter Craziness

英语单词 pandemonium
英美音标 [pændi'məuniəm]
中文释义 n.混战场,喧哗吵闹,喧嚣,大混乱,大吵大闹
vocabulary简明 Pandemonium is chaos, total and utter craziness — like the stampede after your team won the championship, when everyone spilled onto the field at once, bouncing off each other.
vocabulary扩展 If you look carefully at the word pandemonium, you’ll see the word demon inside it. This makes sense, since the word pandemonium was coined in Milton’s Paradise Lost, where it was the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell. Milton wrote back in the 17th century. Nowadays, pandemonium crops up whenever journalists are describing a chaotic scene. High school students have been heard to use it to describe their lunchroom.
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]喧闹;嘈杂;混乱 If there is pandemonium in a place, the people there are behaving in a very noisy and uncontrolled way.
  • There was pandemonium in court as the judge gave his summing up...

    法官做总结时,法庭里一片混乱。

  • Pandemonium broke out as they ran into the street shouting.

    他们叫嚷着冲到大街上,大街上顿时乱作一团。

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