- 1喧鬧、譁然、群情激憤（一大群人吵起來或公開表達憤怒）。
An uproar is a great burst of noise from a lot of people at once. It has two flavours that share one word. The first is literal noise — a room full of shouting, laughing, banging: 'the hall was in an uproar'. The second, and the more common one in the news, is public anger: an uproar is what happens when people are outraged about something and say so loudly and everywhere — 'the announcement caused an uproar', 'there was an uproar over the new tax'. In modern use the anger sense usually wins. it can go both ways: 'an uproar' (countable, one event) and 'in uproar' or 'in an uproar' (a state). British writers often drop the article — 'the country was in uproar' — while American writers keep it: 'the country was in an uproar'. Both are correct in their own place. It is a strong word. Use it for a whole crowd, a whole country, a whole internet — not for two people arguing.
From the word’s history
A calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar.
仿自荷蘭文 oproer 或德文 Aufruhr，拆成 up＋roar。
組成This one fools everybody, including native speakers. It looks like 'up' plus 'roar', but it is really a borrowing of Dutch 'oproer' or German 'Aufruhr', both meaning revolt or commotion. English speakers heard the foreign word and re-spelled it with the two familiar English pieces that sounded right — up and roar. So the parts you see are a happy accident, not the true origin. Luckily the accident is a good memory hook: a roar going up from a crowd.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
uproarnoun/ˈʌpɹɔː/
- 1
Tumultuous, noisy excitement.
- 2
Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- 3
A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.
- This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
uproarverb/ˈʌpɹɔː/
- 1
To throw into uproar or confusion.
- […] had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.
- 2
To make an uproar.
- […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
- […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。