Babel
['bebl]
['beɪb(ə)l] or ['bebl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
(n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
伊莉斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.
布伦达編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Hubbub, confusion, clamor, jargon, din, discord, clang
ANT:Elocution, articulation, monotony, distinctness, consecutiveness, intonation,enunciation, unisonousness
校對:南森
解釋/意思:
n. a lofty structure: a confused combination of sounds: a scene of confusion.—ns. Bā′beldom Bā′belism.
錄入:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Slow: stagnating along, like shoreless Lake, yet with a noise like Niagara, like Babel and Bedlam. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Fable and imagination have traced back the origin of freemasonry to the Roman Empire, to the Pharaohs, the Temple of Solomon, the Tower of Babel, and even to the building of Noah’s ark. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was the first linguistic concourse since Babel times. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Quickly the waitress returns bearing what is apparently a model of the Tower of Babel but what is really a pile of plates and flat tin dish-covers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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