| 单词 | din |
| 释义 | din I. < a din of whistles, catcalls … and trumpets — Whitney Balliett > Synonyms: < it made a din like all the boiler factories in the world and all the backfiring motors in creation trying to drown each other's noise out — W.F.Jenkins > < the general had forbidden the tolling of funeral bells so that the incessant mournful din might not pound perpetually at our ears — Kenneth Roberts > < the air was full of the usual tropic din: mosquitoes humming, cicadas trilling, bullfrogs twanging like guitars — R.A.W.Hughes > uproar and pandemonium both imply tumult or the wildest disorder, usually among persons but often among animals or the elements. uproar usually implies disordered shouting or the clamor of an arguing, fighting, or protesting crowd < it is the tenants of this upper gallery who, for their shilling, make all the noise and uproar for which the English playhouses are so famous — Eugene Burr > < two thousand choristers from 70 choral societies … beefed, brayed, and bellowed … the only listeners to the enormous uproar were sundry critics — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < often throw the parliamentary debates into an uproar — Paul Blanshard > pandemonium is stronger than uproar, stressing a complete disorder and implying the noisy boisterousness of a crowd breaking bounds and running riot < by this time the mob had its blood up, and pandemonium broke loose — Bertrand Russell > < their temple for the next hundred years was a pandemonium of contending priests — Times Literary Supplement > < the result of his inflammatory speech was pandemonium in the hall > hullabaloo, often interchangeable with din or uproar, seldom suggests earsplitting noise or turmoil, but suggests rather noise attendant upon great excitement, especially that disturbing peace and quiet, often applying to a quick storm of protest, a torrent of sudden sensational gossip, or an outburst of noisy passion < the current political hullabaloo — New Republic > < the building was planned for nine stories, but the residents of the St.-Germain quarter raised such a hullabaloo against its towering bulk that one story was left off — Janet Flanner > < the music stopped and the familiar hullabaloo was reestablished in the room — Jean Stafford > babel signifies a confusion especially of mixed languages or vocal qualities, usually strongly stressing the total meaninglessness or purposelessness of the noise < young and old, fat and thin, all laughed and shouted in a babel of tongues — Winifred Bambrick > < among the babel of contradictory claims — Ruth Benedict > < must we fall into the jabber and babel of discord while victory is still unattained? — Sir Winston Churchill > hubbub suggests the noisy and incessant movement of a busy bustling market place, seldom implying painful or disturbing noise or turmoil < the hubbub about national politics — Leon Halden > < listening far into the night to the hubbub of voices — Howard Troyer > < further hubbub in the Beverly Hills sector was occasioned when headlines featured a well-known literary figure's suicide gesture — Bennett Cerf > racket stresses the psychological effects of a noise more than its character, implying annoyance or disturbance and applying to any noise that strikes one as excessive or inordinate < he could hear the racket in the street — loud now, the cries, the honkings, the vendors, the rattle of carriage wheels over cobbles, the harsh clang of the extra streetcars — Barnaby Conrad > < the children had police whistles and cap pistols and made a terrible racket in the street > II. transitive verb 1. < dinned his ears with shrill reproaches and complaints > 2. < dinned the official doctrines into their minds > intransitive verb < a hundred horns dinned in protest as traffic ground to a stop > < the jukebox was dinning — Ralph Ellison > III. |
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