uproar

英 ['?pr??] 美['?pr?r]

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復(fù)數(shù):?uproars;

uproar 吵鬧，騷亂

來自荷蘭語uproer, 騷亂，up,向上，-roer, 搖動(dòng)，攪拌，詞源同rare, 翻炒，半熟。引申詞義騷亂。而吵鬧義可能是受roar影響的拼寫訛誤。

uproar: uproar: [16] Uproar has no direct etymological connection with roar. It originally meant ‘uprising, insurrection’, and was borrowed from Dutch oproer. This is a compound formed from op ‘up’ and roer ‘movement’. It was first used in English by William Tindale, in his 1526 translation of the Bible (for Acts 21:38 he has ‘that Egyptian which made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness about four thousand men’). The sense ‘loud outcry’, which was inspired of course by the similarity of roar, emerged as early as the 1540s.
uproar (n.): 1520s, "outbreak of disorder, revolt, commotion," used by Tindale and later Coverdale as a loan-translation of German Aufruhr or Dutch oproer "tumult, riot," literally "a stirring up," in German and Dutch bibles (as in Acts xxi:38). From German auf (Middle Dutch op) "up" (see up (adv.)) + ruhr (Middle Dutch roer) "a stirring, motion," related to Old English hreran "to move, stir, shake" (see rare (adj.2)). Meaning "noisy shouting" is first recorded 1540s, probably by mistaken association with unrelated roar.

1. The surprise announcement could cause an uproar in the United States.: 這一突然發(fā)布的公告可能會(huì)在美國(guó)引起騷亂。

3. The uproar was enough to rouse both the quick and the dead.: 這喧囂聲足以驚醒生者和死者.