pell-mell.
跌跌撞撞,跌跌不休,跌跌撞撞的,跌宕起伏
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adv.adverb · 副词
- 1.
- ›in disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner.
- ›in a confused or jumbled mass, crowd, manner, etc.: The crowd rushed pell-mell into the store when the doors opened.
adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- ›indiscriminate; disorderly; confused: a pell-mell dash after someone.
- ›overhasty or precipitate; rash: pell-mell spending.
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a confused or jumbled mass, crowd, etc.
- ›disorderly, headlong haste.
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Examples
Knocking—or praising—schools for their share of Pell Grant recipients really is rearranging the deck chairs here.
“Our ambition is to become something of a model in financial management rather than a cause for occasional scandal,” Pell said.
How much time Pell and Kwan have spent actually living in Rhode Island (they have a house in Providence) has come into question.
“We might have to wait and do further lessons after the election,” Pell says lightheartedly, himself a beginner.
Or perhaps she and Pell could try the figure skating pairs event in Pyeongchang in 2018?
We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.
“I have heard it remarked that she was a very fine woman, Mr. Weller,” said Pell in a sympathising manner.
Mrs. Pell was a very elegant and accomplished woman; her manners were the theme of universal admiration in our neighbourhood.
The scene beggars description; bags, bundles, bales, boxes are pitched out pell-mell.
Sobber was with a chum named Nick Pell, and both eyed Dick in a calculating manner which was highly offensive.