pandemonium

英 [ˌpændəˈməʊniəm]

美 [ˌpændəˈmoʊniəm]

n.  骚动; 群情沸腾

GRE

BNC.20097 / COCA.21228

牛津词典

noun

• 骚动；群情沸腾
  a situation in which there is a lot of noise, activity and confusion, especially because people are feeling angry or frightened
  1. Pandemonium broke out when the news was announced.
     这消息一宣布，立即乱成一片。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 喧闹；嘈杂；混乱
  If there ispandemoniumin a place, the people there are behaving in a very noisy and uncontrolled way.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a state of extreme confusion and disorder
  Synonym:chaosbedlamtopsy-turvydomtopsy-turvyness

双语例句

• What kind of a pandemonium that vessel was, I cannot descriBe, But she was commanded By a lunatic, and might Be called a floating Bedlam.
  那艘船处于怎样的一片混乱之中，我无法形容，但它确在一个精神错乱者的指挥之下，可以称之为一所浮动的疯人院。
• A full or comprehensive break-up, with the euro area splintering into a Greater Deutschmark zone and about 10 national currencies would create pandemonium.
  欧元区全面或是彻底解体，分裂成大德国马克区和大约10种不同国家的货币，这将引发一场大混乱。
• Heh*, what happened lead to the so unity country became so pandemonium?
  呵呵，是什么让这个团结的国家变得这样灰暗？
• Down at the east end of the slum, however, a noisy crowd had gathered on a rubbish dump: the girls were holding a meeting. All at once pandemonium broke out again and it was impossible to hear what anybody was saying.
  但在这草棚区域东首一片堆垃圾的空场上，又是嚷嚷闹闹的一个人堆。女工们正在开大会。纷乱的嚷闹起来了，谁也听不清谁的话语。
• Pandemonium reigned in the classroom until the teacher arrived.
  教师来到之前教室里乱哄哄的。
• People assume, in an airplane crash, that there's pandemonium and people panic.
  人们会以为在空难中会出现混乱和人员惊慌。
• 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。
• For a tangerine-and-mango yogurt, he combined the flavors with the word'pandemonium'to create Tangomonium.
  对于桔子和芒果味酸奶，他将这些口味与词语“pandemonium”混合，创建了品牌名Tangomonium。
• Tow grapes. Who would have thought a pair of tainted red grapes could cause so much economic and political pandemonium?
  两颗葡萄。谁能想到，两颗污染的葡萄竟会在经济和政治上引起如此大的混乱。
• We are astonished at the pandemonium wrought on our household by this puppy.
  我们感到惊讶，在混乱造成的对我们的家庭是由这小狗。