| 单词 | disorder |
| 释义 | dis·order I. transitive verb 1. a. b. < eating enough to disorder his digestive system > < events shocking enough to disorder the mind > 2. archaic intransitive verb Synonyms: < to disorder the carefully arranged contents of a drawer > < reasoning disordered by strong emotion > < a country disordered by war > disarrange implies merely the changing of a fixed, desirable, or neat order or arrangement < disarranged his carefully brushed hair > < disarrange the normal functioning of the household > derange implies a marked throwing out of proper order of parts which exist in their best state or function best in a given order or interrelationship, differing from the previous words in implying a resulting confusion or a destruction of normal or healthy conditions < within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and organic life — Russell Lord > < the news of his cousin Anne's engagement … deranged his best plan of domestic happiness — Jane Austen > < [war] lays its blight on whole peoples, deranges their life — C.E.Montague > disorganize implies the destruction of the order and functioning of an organization of interrelated things, suggesting, therefore, a disordering that runs through an entire system, breaking it up or seriously impeding its full operation or effectiveness < world economy and national currencies in 1948 were highly disorganized and unbalanced — Collier's Year Book > < an expenditure which would disorganize his whole scheme of finance — John Buchan > < the normal metabolic activity of this organ is disorganized by infections — H.R.Litchfield & L.H.Dembo > unsettle suggests a disordering or disarrangement of a fixed or desirable order, or a calm attendant upon such an order, and a resulting instability and often turbulence < learned enough of it to unsettle his religious beliefs — R.A.Hall b.1911 > < war unsettles the institutions and practices of even the firmest culture > < unsettle the thoughts > disturb implies a force that unsettles or disarranges; often it suggests an interruption that affects a settled order or condition < the headlights also disturbed the slumbers of the night — Sherwood Anderson > < those emotions which disturb the reason — Virginia Woolf > < the warps and strains of civilized life, with its excessive industrialism and militarism, seem to disturb the wholesome balance of even the humblest elements of the possessive and aesthetic instincts — Havelock Ellis > < a noise that disturbs one's thoughts > II. 1. < the scientific view … regards disorder and inexplicable irregularity as a scandal — W.R.Inge > < those rooms are all in disorder, there has been hurried packing — Charles Dickens > 2. a. b. < she had been a sinner from her early youth and … continued her disorders even until an advanced age — Willa Cather > c. < widespread lawlessness in the 1850's appeared … in lynchings of abolitionists and in the disorders in Kansas — H.E.Davis > 3. < an intestinal disorder > < suffering from a nutritional disorder caused by lack of calcium and phosphorus — Time > Synonyms: see confusion |
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