| 单词 | commotion |
| 释义 | com·mo·tion 1. < 18 years of commotion had made the majority of the people ready to buy repose at any price — T.B.Macaulay > 2. < the commotion of the steady gentle breeze > < the thermal commotion of the surface atoms — Physical Review > 3. < startled … into no ordinary state of commotion — Arnold Bennett > 4. a. < a gang of hooligans making a commotion in the street > b. < there was commotion all over the house at the return of the young heir — George Meredith > 5. medicine Synonyms: < wakened at midnight by a commotion in the street below > < trying to put out a drunk without distracting commotion > < agitators keeping up a commotion during the speech > agitation may suggest a strong swirling, stirring, or seething, an emotional excitation similar to these physical actions, or a sustained effort to stir up excitement about some political or social issue < the panting of the horses communicated a tremulous motion to the coach, as if it were in a state of agitation — Charles Dickens > < breathless with agitation — Jane Austen > < an anti-Catholic agitation that was marked by the destruction of churches — American Guide Series: New York > confusion describes a state in which things are mixed, poured, or heaped together in a jumble so that differentiation is hard, a mental condition marked by uncertainty, indecisiveness and doubt, or a social or political situation making for such a condition < tremendous smokestacks rose out of a confusion of buildings — New Yorker > < if jostled they bowed profusely to the jostlers, and appeared overwhelmed with confusion — E.A.Poe > tumult applies to commotion and agitation marked by uproar, din, or, more specif., the noise of a great mob in riot or to any similar noisy jarring inescapable confusion < the tumults and disorders of the Great Rebellion — T.S.Eliot > < the whole knoll was suddenly in a tumult of movement; mounted officers clattered off — Kenneth Roberts > turmoil indicates a state in which everything is in agitated disorder and pointless noisy activity, where nothing is at rest or in place < the turmoil which attends departure from home — F.A.Swinnerton > < her life had been calm, regular, monotonous. And now it was thrown into an indescribable turmoil — Arnold Bennett > < the revolutionary turmoil in Mexico in 1913 — American Guide Series: Texas > turbulence suggests swirling wild unruly disorder or a disposition to it < scenes of public turbulence and crass overriding of parliamentary opinion — Cecil Sprigge > < the turbulence normal in a frontier community — R.A.Billington > < plenty of the turbulence of passion but none of the gravity of thoughtful emotion — A.T.Quiller-Couch > convulsion indicates a violent, spasmodic, or sudden surging, confused action — as in the earth's crust, the individual's mind, or the body politic < flourishing cities were demolished by the earth's convulsion — Martin Gardner > < the convulsions of a soul storm-driven and unreconcilable spiritual conflicts — H.O.Taylor > upheaval indicates a violent, very forceful thrusting out or up, heaving up, or overthrowing < the vast social convulsions of a continent in travail are such a mystery to this type of mind that even the most catastrophic upheavals are attributed to mistakes made in our State Department — Reinhold Niebuhr > < new islands rising from the seas as a result of volcanic upheavals > |
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