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pell-mell

/pel-mel/US // ˈpɛlˈmɛl //UK // (ˈpɛlˈmɛl) //

跌跌撞撞,跌跌不休,跌跌撞撞的,跌宕起伏

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 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.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : indiscriminate; disorderly; confused: a pell-mell dash after someone.
    • : overhasty or precipitate; rash: pell-mell spending.
n.名词 noun
  1. 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.