英语
词源
rumbustious (“喧闹的”)的一个变体。[1]
发音
形容词
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,卷号XL,期号CCXXXIX,Dublin:James McGlashan, […]; London: W[illia]m S[omerville] Orr and Company, OCLC 841086102, chapter XI, 页号557, column 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. […],卷号I (New Series),期号1,Dublin; London:James Duffy, […], OCLC 1152067582, 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J[ohn] T[ownsend] Trowbridge and Lucy Larcom编, Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls,卷号IX,期号III,Boston, Mass.:James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], OCLC 41110873, 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,卷号10,期号4,Washington, D.C.:Canadian Embassy, ISSN 0045-4257, OCLC 1553023, 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 0004-7694, OCLC 6823366, 页号82, column 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 30573760, 页号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年5月1日,Jeffrey J. Rowland, Wigu Adventures[1], archived from the original on 6 January 2009:
- 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], archived from the original on 24 May 2019:
- 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
- rambunxious (罕用)
- rumbunctious
衍生词汇
- rambunction (非正式)
- rambunctiously
- rambunctiousness
参见
参考资料
- ↑ “rambunctious, adj.”, OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “rambunctious, adj.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.