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A brouhaha is a lot of noise, excitement, and busy talk about something — people getting angry, shocked, or very busy — when the speaker thinks it is too much. News writers like the word, and they usually use it with a little : “all the brouhaha over…” means “look how loudly everyone is going on.” It is not a fight with fists; it is the storm of headlines, complaints, and fuss. Though actually, it is a bit of a show-off word. In everyday speech people more often say fuss, uproar, or all that noise. English borrowed it from French brouhaha. Some people say French may have taken it from a Hebrew welcome meaning “blessed is he who comes,” but scholars do not all agree, so that is only a maybe.
一陣喧鬧、小題大作的風波（新聞裡常帶點不以為然）
組成Borrowed from French brouhaha. Where French got it before that is disputed. It may come from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá), a welcome meaning “blessed is he who comes,” but that is only a possibility.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brouhahanoun/ˈbɹuː.hɑː.hɑː/
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A stir; a fuss or uproar.
- It caused quite a brouhaha when the school suspended one of its top students for refusing to adhere to the dress code.
- For as they were maneuvering the cylinder onto a dolly, it split and dumped one ton of chlorine trifluoride onto the floor. It chewed its way through twelve inches of concrete and dug a three-foot hole in the gravel underneath, filled the place with fumes which corroded everything in sight, and, in general, made one hell of a mess. Civil Defense turned out, and started to evacuate the neighborhood, and to put it mildly, there was quite a brouhaha before things quieted down. Miraculously, nobody was killed, but there was one casualty — the man who had been steadying the cylinder when it split. He was found some five hundred feet away, where he had reached Mach 2 and was still picking up speed when he was stopped by a heart attack.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。