pandemonium
pandemonium 英 [ˌpændəˈməʊniəm] 美 [ˌpændəˈmoʊniəm]
n. 一片混乱；闹哄哄的场所
名词复数:pandemoniums
- Pandemonium is chaos, total and utter craziness — like the stampede after your team won the championship, when everyone spilled onto the field at once, bouncing off each other.
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- n. 一片混乱；闹哄哄的场所
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1. Then the first blast went off, and the grim quiet erupted into pandemonium.
接着第一声爆炸响起，肃静瞬间变成一片混乱。
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2. Many choose to simply pay the fine, but their flights can cause pandemonium when the planes crop up on airport radar screens.
很多人干脆选择直接付罚款，但当他们的飞机突然出现在机场的雷达屏幕上时，这种飞行就会引起一阵混乱。
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3. "The workers at Chernobyl had no idea that they were walking into an intense radiation field," said Professor Wakeford. "It was pandemonium; there was no monitoring, no idea of the risks.
“诺尔切贝利的工作不知道他们正步入剧烈的核辐射区域，”韦克福德教授说：“一片混乱，那里没有监测，也对危险毫无认识。”
- pandemonium (n.) 1667, Pandæmonium, in "Paradise Lost" the name of the palace built in the middle of Hell, "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," coined by John Milton (1608-1674) from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + Late Latin daemonium "evil spirit," from Greek daimonion "inferior divine power," from daimon "lesser god" (see demon).
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