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babel

/bab-uhl; Russian bah-byil/US // ˈbæb əl; Russian ˈbɑ byɪl //UK // (ˈbeɪbəl) //

巴贝尔,巴别尔,巴贝儿,巴比伦

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : I·saak Em·ma·nu·i·lo·vich [ahy-zuhk; Russian ee-sahk yi-muh-noo-yee-luh-vyich], /ˈaɪ zək; Russian iˈsɑk yɪ mə nuˈyi lə vyɪtʃ/, 1894–1941, Russian author.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
bedlam卧床不起,卧铺,卧病在床,卧病不起clang铿锵有力,哐当,铿锵,哐当一声din喧嚣,喧闹声,喧哗声,嘈杂声discord不和,不和谐,不和睦,不协调hubbub喧嚣,人声鼎沸,喧哗,喧闹声hullabaloo喧嚣,哗众取宠,喧哗声,喧闹jargon行话,术语,行语,专业术语pandemonium大闹天宫,大混乱,大恐慌,混乱racket球拍,拍子,球杆,球棒tower塔楼,塔台,高塔,塔tumult杂乱无章,喧嚣,喧哗声,喧闹声turmoil动荡,动乱,动荡不安,扰动

Examples

  • The Future of TV Briefing this week aims to offer a Tower of Babel for some of the industry’s most prevalent acronyms.

  • Gowan, Donald E. From Eden to Babel: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis 1-11.

  • Mumford Sons taking 'a considerable amount of time off' after 'Babel' tour.

  • We watch Babel beaten, just before his death, in “Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940.”

  • Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams, The Burning Plain) employs a nonlinear style.

  • After two mostly ignored novels, Shababo spent the rest of her life working in what Isaac Babel called the "genre of silence."

  • If there is one thing that convinces me that the story of the Tower of Babel is true, it is the names of the towns in Injy.

  • They spoke so many different languages that a Babel-like confusion resulted.

  • Again Babel burst forth, and riot reigned supreme for five minutes more.

  • Nembrot, Nimrod; so that his toures hye refers to the tower of Babel.

  • It is a life of great interest, complicated by the Tower of Babel, that old enemy.

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