turmoil

英語

詞源

未知。首个记录见于1520年，可能源自古法語 tremouille (“磨粉机的漏斗”)。

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• (英國) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈtɜːmɔɪl/

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名詞

turmoil (通常不可數, 複數 turmoils)

1. 混乱，动荡，骚乱
   • 2012 6月 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, 出自 BBC Sport:

     Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.

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   • 2024 1月 14, Charles Hugh Smith, Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States‎^[1]:

     The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. 麻烦，困扰，烦扰
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近義詞

• chaos、disorder

動詞

turmoil (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 turmoils, 現在分詞 turmoiling, 一般過去時及過去分詞 turmoiled)

1. (棄用, 不及物) 混乱；动荡
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2. (棄用, 及物) 烦扰，打搅
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     It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

延伸閱讀

• “turmoil”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “turmoil”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 turmoil 的释义
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “turmoil”, 《在线词源词典》（Online Etymology Dictionary）