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单词 hue and cry
分类 英汉词典
释义
词典释义:
hue and cry
英 [hjuː ənd kraɪ]
美 [hjuː ənd kraɪ]

n. 叫嚣声;公众的疾呼;喊捉声;捉拿声

双语例句
  • Just as the show ended, he heard a huge hue and cry outside.

    正当演出结束的时候,他听到外面一阵喧嚣的愤怒抗议。

  • The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.

    工人们吵吵闹闹反对新规定。

  • He soon took up the hue and cry of "Mama doesn't make it that way."

    很快,他也开始喊叫哭闹“妈妈不那样做菜。”

  • Only a few of the private shopowners raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.

    只有几个私营店主大叫大嚷,反对新规定。

  • "Stop thief," cried Smith as he ran. Others joined him, and soon there was a hue and cry.

    “抓小偷,”史密斯边跑边喊。其他人同他一起追喊着。

释义
n.

a loud clamour or public outcry

叫嚣声,公众的疾呼。

historical a loud cry calling for the pursuit and capture of a criminal. In former English law, the cry had to be raised by the inhabitants of a hundred in which a robbery had been committed, if they were not to become liable for the damages suffered by the victim.

〈史〉 喊捉声,捉拿声(追捕罪犯的叫喊声;在以前的英国法律中,在抢劫案发生的百户邑中,居民们必须呼喊抓贼,否则将对受害者遭受的损失负责)。

词源

"late Middle English: from the Anglo-Norman French legal phrase hu e cri, literally ‘outcry and cry', from Old French hu ‘outcry' (from huer ‘to shout’)."

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