rabble
rabble 英 ['ræb(ə)l] 美 ['ræbl]
n. 乌合之众；暴民；下层社会；（搅炼用的）长柄耙 vt. 聚众闹事；用长柄耙搅拌
名词复数:rabbles
- A rabble is a noisy gathering of people. The police might arrive to calm the rabble that crowds the sidewalks after a huge win for the local football team.
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- n. 乌合之众；暴民；下层社会；（搅炼用的）长柄耙
- vt. 聚众闹事；用长柄耙搅拌
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1. Uruguayan referees may not be flavour of the month with England at the moment, but Fabio Capello's rabble can count themselves lucky: at least they didn't get four goals disallowed by one of them.
尽管眼下乌拉圭教练并不对英国人的胃口，但法比奥·卡佩罗的乌合之众们也可知足了：至少他们没有因为乌拉圭教练而被错判掉四个进球。
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2. Some of the Founding Fathers feared the direction in which the unschooled majority of Americans, a “rabble in arms” in one author’s famous description, might take their new country.
一位作家曾对多数未受过教育的美国人做出“武装暴民”这个家喻户晓的描述，一些开国元勋担心这群人会把这个新国家引向何方。
- rabble (n.1) c. 1300, "pack of animals," possibly related to Middle English rablen "to gabble, speak in a rapid, confused manner," probably imitative of hurry, noise, and confusion (compare Middle Dutch rabbelen, Low German rabbeln "to chatter"). Meaning "tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people" is from late 14c.; applied contemptuously to the common or low part of any populace from 1550s.
- rabble (n.2) iron bar for stirring molten metal, 1864, from French râble, from Old French roable, from Latin rutabulum "rake, fire shovel," from ruere to rake up (perhaps cognate with Lithuanian rauju, rauti "to pluck out," German roden "to root out").
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