bedlam
bedlam 英 [ˈbedləm] 美 [ˈbɛdləm]
n. 混乱，骚乱；精神病院，疯人院
名词复数:bedlams
- Bedlam is a scene of madness, chaos or great confusion. If you allow football fans onto the field after the big game, it will be pure bedlam.
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- n. 混乱，骚乱；精神病院，疯人院
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1. One of the things I liked about it is that you are dropped into the middle of bedlam as a viewer and you cannot understand what is happening.
我喜欢这部电影的一个原因是它让观众深陷在骚乱之中而你又不知道该如何是好。
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2. All hell broke loose, the police came into a by-now crowded ring to try and restore order and like a ripple effect the bedlam moved to the hotel lobby and then the streets outside.
情况变得一团混乱，警察冲进此刻已经被围得水泄不通的拳击台，试图恢复秩序，可混乱如发生连锁反应一样，向酒店大厅，接着向外面的街道扩散而去。
- bedlam (n.) "scene of mad confusion," 1660s, from colloquial pronunciation of "Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem" in London, founded 1247 as a priory, mentioned as a hospital 1330 and as a lunatic hospital 1402; it was converted to a civic lunatic asylum on dissolution of the monasteries in 1547. It was spelled Bedlem in a will from 1418, and Betleem is recorded as a spelling of Bethlehem in Judea from 971.
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