词汇释义
fracas TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈfræk.ɑː/ US /ˈfreɪ.kəs/
noun, A fracas is a rough, noisy quarrel or fight.吵闹，喧嚷，打闹
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外刊例句
1.Teen Vogue and Facebook both said the labeling fracas was all a big misunderstanding.(New York Times)
2. The House Committee on Natural Resources, chaired by Bishop, joined the fracas.(Seattle Times)
3. Weeks later, Trump himself waded into the fracas, accusing Qatar of funding extremism in tweets on June 6.(Seattle Times)
4. Evans said the aviation security officers involved in the fracas are primarily trained to check the identification of people entering secure areas of the airports.(Los Angeles Times)
5. Also on Wednesday, the Chicago Department of Aviation put two more officers who were involved in the onboard fracas on administrative leave, joining an officer who was suspended earlier.(Los Angeles Times)
6. A Korean Air flight from Vietnam to South Korea devolved into a flying fracas last month when a passenger began attacking passengers and flight attendants.(Los Angeles Times)
7. A lot of those are likely to consist of policies such as the ones backed in May in the wake of the Fappening fracas.(Time)
8. After the BBC was informed of what it initially called “a fracas,” Mr. Clarkson was suspended on March 10 and the last three episodes of this season of the popular “Top Gear” program were postponed.(New York Times)
9. There’s been lots of coverage of this fracas, and what it means for labor, for franchise owners, for employment in the city of Seattle.(Forbes)
10. On Thursday the Supreme Court of Canada will hold oral arguments on whether that nation should get involved in the fracas.(BusinessWeek)
11.The Nasdaq Stock Market launched new IPOs for the first time since the Facebook fracas—but the smooth debuts got a tepid reception from investors.(Wall Street Journal)
12. This latest fracas over footwear follows recent complaints by the Chinese about restrictions on its exports of steel fasteners, car tyres and poultry.(TheEconomist)
词汇搭配
in the fracas
词汇家族
fracases
词汇来源
1727, from French fracas "crash, sudden noise; tumult, bustle, fuss" (15c.), from Italian fracasso "uproar, crash," back-formation from fracassare "to smash, crash, break in pieces," from fra-, a shortening of Latin infra "below" (see infra-) + Italian cassare "to break," from Latin quassare "to shake" (see quash).
近义词
battle, clash, combat, conflict, contest, dustup, fight, fray, hassle, scrap, scrimmage, scrum, scuffle, skirmish, struggle, tussle
反义词
truce, agreement, harmony, peace, tranquility, calmness, accord, silence, reconciliation, peacefulness, stillness, concord, quietness
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