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If someone is rambunctious, they are noisy, full of bounce, and hard to keep in a chair. We say it of children, puppies, a classroom after lunch, a party that has got out of hand.
If someone is rambunctious如果一個人是rambunctious they are noisy, full of bounce, and hard to keep in a chair代表他們很吵、活力十足,而且很難乖乖坐在椅子上 We say it of children, puppies, a classroom after lunch, a party that has got out of hand我們會用這個字形容小孩、小狗、吃完午餐後的教室,或是失控的派對
It is not usually cruel or criminal — more “too much energy to control” than “bad.” Informal, and more American than British (a British speaker might say or unruly instead).
It is not usually cruel or criminal這通常不是兇狠或犯罪的意思 more too much energy to control than bad比較像是「精力多到管不住」,而不是「壞」 Informal, and more American than British這是口語,而且比較是美式用法 a British speaker might say boisterous or unruly instead英式英文的人可能會改說boisterous或unruly
It can be fond: call the grandchildren rambunctious and smile. You would not normally use it for a quiet, cold kind of trouble.
It can be fond這個字可以帶著疼愛的語氣 grandparents call the grandchildren rambunctious and smile阿公阿嬤會邊笑邊說孫子rambunctious You would not normally use it for a quiet, cold kind of trouble你通常不會拿這個字形容安靜、冷冷的那種麻煩
The word is a variant of older , which already meant and unruly — same idea, slightly different shape. Nobody is quite sure why the shifted; what students need is the feel: loud, lively, not sitting still.
The word is a variant of older rumbustious這個字是比較舊的rumbustious的一個變體 which already meant boisterous and unruly rumbustious本來就已經是「吵鬧、難管束」的意思 same idea, slightly different shape概念一樣,只是外形有點不同 Nobody is quite sure why the vowels shifted沒有人很確定為什麼母音會變 what students need is the feel學生要抓的是那種感覺 loud, lively, not sitting still就是吵、有活力、坐不住
組成A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”) — same meaning, a different spelling-shape.
同家族的字
- rumbustiousthe older/variant form this word comes from, with the same ‘wild high spirits’ sense
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。
rambunctiousadj/ɹæmˈbʌŋ(k)ʃəs/
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informalBoisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.
- The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
- "Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.
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。