单词	bedlam
释义	bedlambed‧lam /ˈbedləm/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINbedlam Origin: 1600-1700 bedlam ‘mental hospital’ (17-18 centuries), from Bedlam ‘Bethlehem’ (10-17 centuries); from the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem former London mental hospital Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The classroom erupted into bedlam whenever Miss Simpson left for longer than a minute. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All around me the bedlam continued but I was looking inward. All this beneath a canopy of sulphur and a bedlam of sounds, like confusion confounded. And she was off into her bedlam of mythology once more. In the bedlam of yelling and barking he danced from one foot to the other in a brief breathless panic. That innocence was not the natural state, bedlam was. The bedlam in no way flustered Boxer Sullivan. The taut dialogue raises a squirming smorgasbord of questions about the potential for bedlam when our profound individual differences are ignored. a situation where there is a lot of noise and confusion SYN  chaos:  When the bomb exploded, there was bedlam.
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