2008年8月12日 星期二

Raucous (吵鬧噪音 爭執 單字大集合)


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–adjective 

1. harsh; strident; grating (發摩擦聲,發咯吱聲): raucous voices; raucous laughter. 

2. rowdy (粗暴); disorderly: a raucous party.  



—Synonyms
 

1. rough, jarring (刺人耳目的), raspy. (刺耳的)

—Antonyms 

1. soft, mellow, dulcet. (悅耳的)





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He has, however, returned to the raucous, witty sense of humor that characterized his earlier works, and there's a zest for life in almost every frame, a quality sorely lacking in more recent efforts.





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boisterous

hullaballoo

Which storm are you talking about? The one outside... or that hullaballoo going on in here?

shindig 

fracas 

rumpus

Hey King! What's your first order of business? Let the wild rumpus start!

ruckus

noisy commotion, fracas, rumpus

Good Lord! What's all this ruckus? - She started it. That's enough!

I'll lay it on the line. What about that ruckus in my office today?

You ain't letting that little ruckus we had run you off, are you?

What's going on? Don't [cause] a ruckus.

cuddle 

snuggle

lie or press closely, as for comfort or from affection, nestle, cuddle 

My doll fell down on the floor. Snuggle down, baby.

I planned out our whole day. First, we'll make snow angels for two hours, and then we'll go ice skating and then we'll eat a whole roll of tollhouse cookie dough as fast as we can, and then, to finish, we'll snuggle.

huddle

You, me and Thomas. What was he, nine? All huddled under that bedroom door frame. I told him it was a good omen.

scrum

Look, this big character comes around the blind side evert time there's a scrum. 

Frank Machin emerges from the coal mines of Yorkshire to wage war in the [rugby] scrum on his way to wealth and stardom.

Keep that scrum tight. Get down low. Come on. Let it go. Let it go. Bring him down. Well done.

coagulation

"Horror," the second story, is a mock 1950's horror film about the brilliant scientist Dr. Tom Graves, known for his work on the molecular coagulation theory.

curdle 

a [scream] that curdled the blood.



clack

The AV Club has the trailer (non-embeddable for now) which I liked [primarily] for some of the footage of Franco as an older Ginsberg, and for the editing, which uses the clacking of a [typewriter] as a [rhythmic] underpinning for the piece.

hobnob

associate on very friendly terms

He hobnobs a bit [with] a nice old waiter who mutely attends his aunt, brings her bottles of brandy, and helps her when she has a [racking] cough.

One of the most fascinating figures of rock's fringes, Nico [hobnobbed], worked, and was romantically linked with an incredible [assortment] of the most legendary entertainers of the '60s.

hubbub

confused migling of sound

His voice could be heard [above] the hubbub.

vociferation

vociferous

crying out noisily, clamorous

ever notice how the most vociferous critics of hipsterdom have themselves a wide streak of hipsterism?

clamor

shouting

the clamor of an [angry] crowd]

din

resonant noise, painful if long continued

the din of a [boiler] works. 

racket

produced by clatter or percussion

He always makes a racket when he cleans up the [dishes]. 

Morse now represents the interests of crime boss Ben Tucker (Roy Roberts), who plans to take over the numbers racket in New York.



brattle

a clattering noise 

to scamper noisily

The Brattle Theater [hosted] a discussion of the book with Verhoeven, and followed it up with a screening of his dystopian classic, Robocop.

rattle

give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions

David O. Russell was rattling the [cage] right from the start. 

Meanwhile, Ray [rattles] around the house, resentful at losing his internship.

enjoying the window-[rattling] thunderstorms that he uses to indicate spiritual crisis,

The Believer's scenario carries the viewer with the [rattling] velocity of the Queens el, but Bean's direction is more [pedestrian] than his writing. 

Brendan can't seem to [shake] the hysterical phone call that he received from Emily the day before her body was discovered, a call in which she [rattled] off a number of [cryptic] words: "brick," "pin," "tug," "poor Frisco."

While we could go on about how,  "Oh mercy me! The age of the true Hollywood star is dead! We're so post-celebrity!" but probably shouldn't let our [bobbleheads] rattle [off] so zealously.



raucous

harsh, strident; grating

raucous [voices] [laughter] 

I’d heard about how [screenings] of The Room were pretty raucous, so when I learned that the Coolidge Corner theater would be screening the film, this time with director Tommy Wiseau in attendance, I had a feeling that I was in for a real treat.

strident 

strident [insects] [hinges] 

a strident tone in his [writings]  

April is isolated in her own neuroses, and Winslet goes all the way into the kind of [strident] rage that is fuelled by excess,

All this talk of identity politics makes My Beautiful Laundrette [sound] strident and stuffy, but it isn't. Full of [indelible] characters and well-defined conflicts, Frears and Kureishi's film works on the most basic level as a coming-of-age story -- one whose [rich] details provide [astute] audiences with plenty to ponder.

screech 

disagreeable, lack of dignity

the screech of [owls] [brakes]

queasy 

squeamish

squeal 

He squealed [on] his mates.

squish

The soaking wet [sneakers] squished as he walked.

the [squish] of footsteps on wet leaves. 

grate

His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.  

to grate on the [ear].  

to grate a [carrot]. 

to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup. 



squall

a sudden, violent gust of wind, often accompanied by rain, snow, or sleet

There was an [angry] squall from the bedroom.

then the horrific photo above came crashing atop our Sunday hangover like a [white] squall. 

His efforts to [secure] her an abortion when he gets her pregnant [stem] not out of concern for her but out of his own selfishness: why should he be tied down with a [squalling] brat?

And I run in the house and poor Mayella was layin' on the floor squallin'.

furor

a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.

And despite the initial [furor] over her casting, her best roles have indicated a sweetness, vulnerability and comic timing that make her perfect for Bridget.

whoop

as of excitement or joy

It opens with a group of soldiers [whooping] it up in a bar in Korea as their commander, 



blare

The [radio] is blaring: turn it off!

The [loudspeakers] blared the speech repeatedly.

The soundtrack's [jarring] contrast between sheer silence and a [blaring] brass band

chug

Hauser is an intriguing character, seen chugging [shot] glasses of hot sauce 

The Strangers [chugs] dutifully along for its contractually obligated 90 minutes,

That's what I get, 8 lousy steps? I counted 10. I'd like you to do some serious chugging.

toot

of a horn or whistle

Leading Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune gives a [ranting], raving, [rooting], [tooting] performance in the central role. 

[Flora] She's our new governess, Miles, and she's awfully nice. I hope Miles will agree. Come on. [Train Whistle Toots]

sonorous

Kelly might have lost half the audience two minutes in by simply quoting T.S. Eliot's [sonorous] "This is the way the world ends..."

gong

Then the husband follows Noel Coward's [maxim]—"women should be [struck] regularly, like [gongs]"—and belts his wife a couple of lusty [wallops].

That's the Daicho [Temple] gong.

jarring

jangle

one senses she is both a [jaded] veteran of this world and a lost traveler experiencing it for the first time. Deschanel's eyes provide an expressive window into her [jangled] thoughts.

jangly

The [legions] of jangly, melodic bands that followed in the wake of Parklife revealed how much more [complex] Blur's vision was.





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Roil



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