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Hurly-burly is a slightly old, slightly playful name for a lot of busy noisy movement all at once — people rushing, voices, clatter, nobody sitting still. You use it for a whole scene, not for one person: the hurly-burly of the market, the hurly-burly of the city, the hurly-burly of an election night. It does not mean a fight, though a fight can be part of the noise; it means the loud mix of activity. You meet it more in books and from older speakers than in a teenager’s chat. If you want a plainer word, say bustle, noise, or commotion. Though actually, it can sit in front of a noun too — the hurly-burly world of — but it is still naming that messy rush, not a new meaning.
喧鬧忙亂；騷動
組成A rhyming pair. Hurly is an old word for noisy disorder, from the idea of throwing things about; burly is the echoing second half, there for the sound. English likes this kind of playful double (like helter-skelter).
同家族的字
- hurlhurly comes from the old sense of throwing things about, which gave the picture of noisy disorder
原始詞典資料2 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。
hurly-burlyverb
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To make an uproar or commotion.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。