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If people run pell-mell, they go fast and in a mess — no line, no plan, bodies and things tumbling together. It can describe the action (they rushed pell-mell down the ) or the scene (a pell-mell retreat). It came from French, from an old word for mixing things up, and the two halves rhyme on purpose, like a little chant. It sounds a bit old-fashioned and now; in ordinary talk people more often say “in a mad rush” or “helter-skelter.” Though actually, it is not dead: writers still reach for it when they want you to feel the chaos. Keep the : pell-mell.
倉皇雜亂地；一窩蜂地
原始詞典資料3 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。
pell-melladj/ˈpɛlˈmɛl/
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Hasty and uncontrolled.
- Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.
- These present the appearance of masses of water-worn gravel, mixed in the most pell mell confusion, the boulders being often of very large size; but I observed no striae, nor any of the blue tenacious clay of the Till, which it so much resembled.
pell-melladv/ˈpɛlˈmɛl/
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In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly.
- But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]
- Never was there a great battle fought more pell-mell, since war began; never was valor so completely thrown away.
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。