- 1混亂、凌亂（較正式；口語常說一團糟）
Disarray is the state of being or not organised. A room in disarray has clothes on the floor and no clear place for anything. A desk in disarray is buried in papers. People also use it for plans, teams, and feelings: a company in disarray has no clear leader; a person in emotional disarray cannot think in a straight line. It is a little formal. In everyday talk you might just say “a mess.” News writers like it because it sounds serious, not childish. You will also meet the verb: to throw something into disarray is to make that mess happen, often suddenly. The usual patterns are in disarray and throw/fall into disarray, not a simple “they disarrayed the room.”
組成dis- (not / apart) + array (to put in order, to line things up). From older French desareer: to undo the lining-up. So the word is “the opposite of being lined up.”
同家族的字
- arraythe ‘in order’ piece: an array is things set out in a line or a set
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
disarrayverb/dɪsəˈɹeɪ/
- 1
To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
- Who with fiery steeds / Oft disarray'd the foes in battle ranged.
- 2
To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
- So as she bad, that witch they disaraid
disarraynoun/dɪsəˈɹeɪ/
- 1
A lack of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
- So, in order to apply a good medicine to the hurt parts of the wildish psyche, in order to aright relationship to the archetype of the Wild Woman, one has to name the disarrays of the psyche accurately.
- Tottenham pushed forward in an attempt to complete the recovery - but only succeeded in leaving themselves wide open to Chelsea's attacks and Redknapp's side ended in total disarray.
- 2
Confused attire; undress; dishabille.
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