rambunctious
英語
編輯詞源
編輯rumbustious (「喧鬧的」)的一個變體。[1]
發音
編輯形容詞
編輯rambunctious (比較級 more rambunctious，最高級 most rambunctious)
- (主美國，非正式) 活潑的，鬧騰的，吵鬧的；難以控制的
- 近義詞：(俚語) hyphy、robustious、rumbustious、(英國北部，蘇格蘭) shandy、unruly、wild
- The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
- 今天孩子們鬧得特別歡。
- 1852 November, O』Hara Family, 「Clough Fionn; or, The Stone of Destiny」, 出自 The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, 第 XL 卷, 第 CCXXXIX 號, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC, chapter XI，第 557 頁，第 1 列:
- "Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.
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- 1862 January, 「A Canal-boat Sketch」, 出自 Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine. […], 第 I (New Series) 卷, 第 1 期, Dublin, London: James Duffy, […], →OCLC，第 92 頁:
- There was close by me a window, and, noiselessly as possible, I slid back a small piece, thereby rousing the light-sleeping mistress of the canary, who sharply requested it be closed again; [...] the other lady smiled despairingly, and signed me to obey, which I reluctantly did by closing the glass; but the shutter proved rumbunctious, and for no effort of mine would again move out of his groove; [...]
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- 1873 March, W[illia]m S. Walsh, 「How We Watched the Grapes」, 出自 Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, 第 IX 卷, 第 III 期, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], →OCLC，第 181 頁:
- "I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission," the dutiful son remarked; "but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know."
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- 1979, 「The Art of Government is the Art of Adjustment」, 出自 Canada Today = Canada d』aujourd』hui, 第 10 卷, 第 4 期, Washington, D.C.: Canadian Embassy, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 2 頁:
- It may sometimes appear that Canada is composed of nine complacent, cohesive English-speaking provinces and rambunctious Quebec. In fact, it is composed of ten provinces, each different and all occasionally rambunctious.
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- 1990 March, L[ucyan] David Mech, 「Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?」, 出自 Audubon, New York, N.Y.: National Audubon Society, →ISSN, →OCLC，第 82 頁，第 2 列; reprinted in 「Appendix 15. Article—Wolf Attacks on Humans」, 出自 The Reintroduction of Gray Wolves to Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho: Final Environmental Impact Statement, Helena, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, May 1994, →OCLC，第 6-100 頁s:
- Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.
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- 2002年5月1日, Jeffrey J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures[1]，於6 January 2009歸檔自原頁面:
- Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.
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- 2015, Molly Whittington-Egan, 「Preface: Into the Cabinet」, 出自 Mrs Guppy Takes a Flight: A Scandal of Victorian Spiritualism, [Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland]: Neil Wilson Publishing, →ISBN，第 x 頁:
- She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.
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- 2018年12月12日, Charles Bramesco, 「A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down」, 出自 The A.V. Club[2]，於24 May 2019歸檔自原頁面:
- She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.
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其他形式
編輯- rambunxious (罕用)
- rumbunctious
衍生詞彙
編輯參見
編輯參考資料
編輯- ↑ 「rambunctious, adj.」，OED Online
，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Oxford University Press，June 2008年; 「rambunctious, adj.」，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.
