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A ragbag is a mixture of very different things that do not seem to fit together well — as if leftover rags had been stuffed into one bag. People use it for ideas, rules, a team, a programme, a drawer: 'a ragbag of old habits.' It is slightly : you are saying the mix is messy and does not belong together. Informal to neutral. The first, literal meaning was a bag for keeping rags; almost all modern uses are the picture, not the bag. It sits near ragtag (a messy group of people), but a ragbag is more often a jumble of things.
大雜燴;雜湊
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。
ragbagnoun
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A bag of rags and scraps.
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A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things; a smorgasbord.
- The pages that constitute "Anna Livia Plurabelle" are surely the most easily decipherable in that masterly and monstrous ragbag of a book.
- In our ragbag of stereotypes, ostriches have thus become the quintessential dim-witted animals. Even the Bible says they're dumb, and bad parents too.
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informalA person (especially a woman) of unclean or untidy appearance.
- Near-synonym: ragtag
- Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian. The man was all alone in the night—a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial.
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。