Rabble
['ræb(ə)l] or ['ræbl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.
多琳校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Mob, rout, rabble-rout, tumultuous crowd.[2]. Populace, commonalty, CANAILLE, herd, dregs of the people, the common people, scum of society, lowest class of people, lower classes, the masses, riff-raff, swinish multitude, ignoble vulgar, vulgar herd, RAG-TAG-AND-BOB-TAIL.
校對:西蒙
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Crowd, mob, scum, dregs, riff-raff, vulgar_herd, disorderly_crowd, canaille
ANT:Elite, aristocracy, galaxy, upper_ten,[See (U.S.)]
坎蒂丝手打
解釋/意思:
n. an iron bar used in puddling.—v.t. to stir with a rabble.—n. Rabb′ler.
n. a disorderly noisy crowd: a mob: the lowest class of people.—adj. disorderly.—v.i. to utter nonsense.—v.t. (Scot.) to mob.—ns. Rabb′lement a tumultuous crowd of low people; Rabb′ling (Scot.) the act of assaulting in a disorderly manner mobbing.
編輯:齐克
娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. In a republic those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh of Arabian fable—omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese and has no exact equivalent in our tongue but means as nearly as may be 'soaring swine. ')
艾哈迈德校對
例句/造句/用法:
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He stood up to defend Aspasia, he was seized by a storm of very human emotion, and as he spoke he wept--a gleeful thing for the rabble. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Now, to think of these vagabonds,' said he, 'attracting the young rabble from a model school. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It almost warrants the enthusiasm of the spies of that rabble of adventurers who captured Dan. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Be the cause what it may, it was the end of the _Gloria Scott_ and of the rabble who held command of her. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- They positively deserve that one should turn a mad cow in amongst them to rout their rabble-ranks. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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