Rabble

rabble







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烏合之眾



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–noun 

1. a disorderly crowd; mob. 

2. the rabble, 

the 

lower classes; the common people: The [nobility] held the rabble in complete contempt.  



–verb (used with object) 

3. to beset as a rabble does; mob.  





　

Shit floats on the Day of Reckoning, and Rachel nearly drowns in it, stuck in an impromptu Dutch detention camp [staffed] by a drunken hymn-singing rabble. 



"I never thought I'd [dread] liberation," 



she says. That's the movie's melancholy moral. Repeatedly buried and resurrected, Rachel is a miraculous survivor. But as the final shot makes clear, resettlement in Israel hardly marks the end of her travail. Like the hero of RoboCop and Verhoeven's planned Jesus movie, she's another one of his non-Christian Christs. 





cohort retinue cavalcade 

splinter

clique (congeniality, exclusiveness) cliques in a [school]

ring (selfish, dishonest) a [gambling] ring

coterie 

esoteric Threnody



pontificate hierophant tyro

acolyte 

protégé 

Garrel was a [protégé] of Eustache and planned this work as an homage.

Castigate

Deluge