- 1喧鬧的群架、騷亂衝突（偏新聞用語，不是日常口語的「打架」）
A fracas is a short, noisy fight with several people in it — shoving, shouting, a sudden mess, not a quiet private quarrel between two people. You hear it in news reports: a fracas outside a pub, a fracas at a match, even a fracas in parliament. It sounds a little fancy; “a fight” or “a brawl” is the same kind of thing, but papers like fracas because it is one neat noun for a messy noisy scene. Though actually, journalists stretch it: it is not always fists. Any ugly public row that breaks out fast can be called a fracas, even if nobody is really hurt. It is not a long war and not a planned attack. The shortness and the noise are the heart of it.
組成From French fracas, from the verb fracasser, “to smash.” That came from Italian fracassare, built from fra- (like Latin infra, “into / below”) + cassare, matching Latin quassare, “to shake, to shatter.” The picture is something smashed up noisily.
原始詞典資料1 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。
fracasnoun/ˈfɹækɑː/
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A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
- Fanny read to herself that “it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world, a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband’s roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr. C. the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R. and it was not known, even to the editor of the newspaper, whither they were gone.”
- The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.
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