kerfuffle

[kə'fʌfəl]

n.<英>混乱, 动乱

例句与用法：

What's all the kerfuffle (about)?

这乱哄哄的是怎麽回事?

n.

骚乱; 混乱

kerfuffle

kerfuffle[kə'fʌfl]n.1.■[英国口语]骚动；混乱；吵闹；口角；扭打vt.1.■[苏格兰英语]使混乱

1. [in sing.](informal, chiefly Brit.)a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views
   (非正式，主英)混乱；动荡；吵闹
   there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship.
   在主席职位问题上发生了争吵。
   

1. early 19th cent.: perhaps from Scots curfuffle (probably from Scottish Gaelic car 'twist, bend' + imitative Scots fuffle 'to disorder'), or related to Irish cior thual 'confusion, disorder'
   

kerfuffle

名词 kerfuffle:

a disorderly outburst or tumult

同义词：disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah

kerfuffle

■It came as a relief to China that the Olympic torch passed through Japan last month with relatively little kerfuffle.

上个月在日本的火炬传递遭遇了相对而言很小的混乱让中国松了一口气。

■Consider the kerfuffle about last week's Peter Kenyon statements.

上周，肯扬所做的声明差点儿引得天下大乱。

■When he arrived to collect the Nobel Prize in 1933, there was a marvellous kerfuffle.

同事笑话他的观点，但狄拉克坚持己见：数学太和谐了，必然会反映在现实中。

■In the presidential election there was a kerfuffle over claims that the wife of Boediono, Mr Yudhoyono's running-mate, was a Christian.

在总统大选时，一度有争论指责布迪约诺的妻子是基督教徒，布迪约诺是尤多约诺总统的竞选伙伴。

■This week, apparently undented by the gay-pride kerfuffle, business was brisk.

本周很明显因为受到同性恋自豪感膨胀的影响，生意愈发兴隆了。

■8.But Britain is caught up in a kerfuffle about an even more esoteric idea, and that threatens its hard-earned reputation for hard-headedness about the field.

然而，不列颠卷入了更加深奥的概念混乱，而且威胁到它的得来不易的，对于该领域的精明冷静的名声。

■2. But Britain is caught up in a kerfuffle about an even more esoteric idea, and that threatens its hard-earned reputation for hard-headedness about the field.

然而，不列颠卷入了更加深奥的概念混乱，而且威胁到它的得来不易的，对于该领域的精明冷静的名声。收藏指正

■What's all the kerfuffle (about)?

这乱哄哄的是怎麽回事?

■The whole kerfuffle really highlights just how on edge global markets are these days, and how few rays of hope there are in the global downturn.

这场市场骚动实际上突出表明，这些天来全球市场已经处于怎样一种紧张状态，在全球经济陷入低迷之际市场上的希望之光又是多么稀缺。