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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.
A fracasFracas（一場鬧哄哄的衝突） is a short, noisy fight with several people in it是好幾個人一起、又短又吵鬧的打鬥 — shoving, shouting, a sudden mess推來推去、大呼小叫，突然亂成一團，not a quiet private quarrel between two people不是兩個人之間安靜的私下爭執。You hear it in news reports你會在新聞報導裡聽到這個字：a fracas outside a puba fracas outside a pub（酒吧外的一場衝突），a fracas at a matcha fracas at a match（比賽現場的一場衝突），even a fracas in parliament甚至a fracas in parliament（國會裡的一場衝突）。
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.
It sounds a little fancy這個字聽起來有點文謅謅；"a fight" or "a brawl" is the same kind of thing「a fight（打架）」或「a brawl（鬥毆）」講的是同一種事，but papers like fracas because it is one neat noun for a messy noisy scene但報紙喜歡用fracas，因為它是一個簡潔的名詞，就能形容一整個亂哄哄吵鬧的場面。
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.
Though actually, journalists stretch it不過其實，記者會把這個字用得更寬鬆：it is not always fists不一定真的動手打人。Any ugly public row that breaks out fast任何突然爆發的難看公開爭執 can be called a fracas都可能被稱為a fracas，even if nobody is really hurt就算沒有人真的受傷。
It is not a long war and not a planned attack. The shortness and the noise are the heart of it.
It is not a long war它不是一場長期的戰爭，and not a planned attack也不是事先計畫好的攻擊。The shortness and the noise「短暫」和「吵鬧」 are the heart of it才是這個字的核心。
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，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。
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.
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。