free-for-all

英语

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈfɹiːfəɹɔːl/
• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈfɹiːfɚɔːl/

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名词

free-for-all (复数 free-for-alls)

1. 大混乱

   When the fire alarm went off, it was a free-for-all.

   火警响起来以后现场一片混乱。

   • 1919，Burton Jesse Hendrick，The Age of Big Business‎^[1]:

     Competition was the order of the day: the industrial warfare of the sixties was a free-for-all.

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   • 2012，Andrew Martin，Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube，Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，第 134 页:

     […] this was a consequence of building Tubes by means of a competitive free-for-all. Each company wanted to expand its territory at the expense of the others.

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2. (电子游戏) 自由混战

参见

• kick bollocks scramble（英国，非正式）
• law of the jungle

形容词

free-for-all (无比较级)

1. (指比赛，打架等) 谁都能参加且无规则秩序的
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   • 1917，Zane Grey，Wildfire‎^[2]:

     Then Lucy told him about the great passion of her father—about the long, time-honored custom of free-for-all races, and the great races that had been run in the past; […]

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   • 2022年10月27日，Lauren Hirsch，引 Elon Musk, “Elon Musk Reaches Out to Advertisers Ahead of Deadline for Twitter Deal”, in The New York Times‎^[3]，→ISSN:

     But, he added, “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences!”

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参见

• knockdown-dragout

延伸阅读

• “free-for-all”在《Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary》上的资料。