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melee

/mey-ley, mey-ley, mel-ey/US // ˈmeɪ leɪ, meɪˈleɪ, ˈmɛl eɪ //UK // (ˈmɛleɪ) //

近战,混战,近身肉搏,近身搏斗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people.
    • : confusion; turmoil; jumble: the melee of Christmas shopping.

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Examples

  • His crew either perished in the melee or were hanged in New Orleans.

  • Somehow, Capitol food service operations still appeared to be up and running through the melee.

  • The event ended, deplorably, in a riotous melee that police had to break up.

  • Ten members of the group were eventually charged following the violent melee, with two ultimately sentenced to serve four-year terms in prison in October 2019.

  • Although a dozen or more coalitions may enter the melee, only one can emerge victorious.

  • In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.

  • It was Orlando vs. Justin in an Ibiza melee with two highly unlikely opposing parties.

  • They made one last charge for the airport, and when the riot police blocked them again a melee ensued.

  • The Kurds entered a buffer zone on the Turkish border and in the melee at least four protestor were wounded.

  • But Silva, hapless Silva, got his merely for tangling with the Colombian goalkeeper in a clumsy melee of limbs.

  • No one of his people had seen the melee from which he had emerged so ingloriously, yet humiliation was terrible.

  • Three or four of George's companions were engaged in the melee, and some hard blows were given back and forth.

  • It was going to be a fine barrage, with guns going off in all directions, because it is hard to keep your head in a melee.

  • Bill was going to shoot right into the melee, but Haught knocked the rifle up, and forbid him to use it.

  • In the melee a Boer horse (a plump one) was triumphantly captured and preserved for dissection.