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

• 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。
• Shrill cries and startled oaths flew up around us as pandemonium broke out
  骚乱爆发时，我们周围充斥着尖厉的哭喊声和难以入耳的咒骂声。
• When the tone finally came through, there was pandemonium in the mission control room. The rally began in an uproar.
  乐曲终于响起，控制室内一片沸腾。大会在一片喧腾声中开始了。
• In midst of all the daily chaos that goes on in the world, a different type of pandemonium takes place every day in the workplace.
  我们的世界每天都发生着各种各样的事情，我们的工作场所也发生了非同寻常的趣事。
• The dollar: Boom! And then pandemonium in the street.
  美元：咚！然后是混乱的街道。
• 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。
• Working in collusion, one from within and the other from without, they created pandemonium.
  他们里应外合，把时局搞得乌烟瘴气。
• Then Sandel stepped to the centre of the ring and the audience hushed its pandemonium to hear him accept young Pronto's challenge and offer to increase the side bet to one hundred pounds.
  然后，桑德尔就走到斗拳场当中，观众停止了喧噪，听他讲话。他接受了年青的普隆托的挑战，而且建议把超过一般赌注的赌注加到一百磅。
• 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。
• 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。