rumbustious
英 [rʌmˈbʌstʃəs]
美 [rʌmˈbʌstʃəs]
rumbustious 吵闹的俚语,可能来自 rum,强烈的,或朗姆酒,bust,爆发,-ious,形容词后缀。
- rumbustious (adj.)
- 1778, an arbitrary formation, part of what Farmer describes as "A class of colloquialisms compounded with an intensive prefix" (ram- or rum-), probably suggesting in part rum (adj.) in its old slang sense of "good, fine," and ramp (n.2). In this case apparently suggested by boisterous, robustious, bumptious, etc. Coined about the same time were rumbustical, rambumptious "conceited, self-assertive," ramgumptious "shrewd, bold, rash," rambuskious "rough," rumstrugenous. Also compare ramshackle, rambunctious.
- 1. The children get very rumbustious after class.
- 下课后孩子们变得非常欢笑声四溢的.
- 2. Beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings.
- 在他作品的欢闹表面背后含有一种对于弱势普通百姓的同情心.