pandemonium

[,p?nd?'mon??m]

GRE暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?pandemoniums;

pandemonium 騷亂

pan-,全部，所有，demon,魔鬼。即地獄，引申詞義混亂，騷亂。

pandemonium: pandemonium: [17] Pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the capital of Hell in his poem Paradise lost 1667: ‘Meanwhile the winged heralds … throughout the host proclaim a solemn council forthwith to be held at Pandaemonium, the high capital of Satan and his peers’. He formed it from the prefix pan- ‘a(chǎn)ll’ and Greek daímōn ‘demon’ – hence ‘place of all the demons’. The modern colloquial use of the word for ‘uproar’ developed in the mid-19th century.
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pandemonium (n.): 1667, Pand?monium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," coined by John Milton (1608-1674) from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + Late Latin daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimon "lesser god" (see demon).

Transferred sense "place of uproar" is from 1779; that of "wild, lawless confusion" is from 1865. Related: Pandemoniac; pandemoniacal; pandemonian; pandemonic.

1. There was pandemonium in court as the judge gave his summing-up.: 法官的結(jié)案陳詞在法庭上引起一片混亂。

2. Pandemonium broke out as they ran into the street shouting.: 他們叫嚷著沖到大街上，大街上頓時(shí)亂作一團(tuán)。

4. The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium, and the din was terrific.: 整個(gè)門廳一片嘈雜, 而且喧囂刺耳.

5. Shrill cries and startled oaths flew up around us as pandemonium broke out.: 騷亂爆發(fā)時(shí)，我們周圍充斥著尖厲的哭喊聲和難以入耳的咒罵聲。