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rigmarole

/rig-muh-rohl/US // ˈrɪg məˌroʊl //UK // (ˈrɪɡməˌrəʊl) //

僵局,繁琐的手续,繁琐的工作,僵化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
    • : confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.

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Examples

  • That wrangling becomes necessary if a classroom tests positive, of course, but surveilling air filters instead of students could help schools get a course look at transmission without the rigmarole of testing lots of students.

  • All that rigmarole from long ago broadcasts important lessons to our own time.

  • After all the rigmarole, they found what any pediatrician already knew: the MMR causes fever.

  • Of course, that rigmarole about the cardinal is all nonsense.

  • But it came back to him afterward, and seemed to bear out the Countess's rigmarole.

  • I am sure that no one who has seen all this radical rigmarole, as I have had occasion to see it, can be deceived by it.

  • It's a rigmarole because the boy is a Rigmarole and we've come to Rigmarole Town.

  • But now, what confused rigmarole are you bringing to my ears?