rambunctious
英语
编辑词源
编辑rumbustious (“喧闹的”)的一个变体。[1]
发音
编辑形容词
编辑rambunctious (比较级 more rambunctious，最高级 most rambunctious)
- (主美国，非正式) 活泼的，闹腾的，吵闹的；难以控制的
- 近义词： (俚语) hyphy、robustious、rumbustious、(英国北部，苏格兰) shandy、unruly、wild
- The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
- 今天孩子们闹得特别欢。
- 1852 November, O’Hara Family, “Clough Fionn; or, The Stone of Destiny”, 出自 The Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, 卷 XL, 号 CCXXXIX, Dublin: James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, →OCLC, chapter XI，页号 557，列号 1:
- "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. […], 卷 I (New Series), 期 1, Dublin, London: James Duffy, […], →OCLC，页号 92:
- 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, 卷 IX, 期 III, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], →OCLC，页号 181:
- "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, 卷 10, 期 4, Washington, D.C.: Canadian Embassy, →ISSN, →OCLC，页号 2:
- 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，页号 82，列号 2; 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，页号s 6-100:
- Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.
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- 2002 5月 1, Jeffrey J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures[1]，于6 January 2009归档自原页面:
- 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，页号 x:
- 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 12月 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, 出自 The A.V. Club[2]，于24 May 2019归档自原页面:
- 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
编辑- rambunxious (罕用)
- rumbunctious
衍生词汇
编辑参见
编辑参考资料
编辑- ↑ “rambunctious, adj.”, OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rambunctious, adj.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
