单词详解 | raucous

raucous
音标
美音:/ˈrɔːkəs/,英音:/ˈrɔːkəs/

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
When the play premiered, its offenses against national pride and prudishness — while proclaiming his love for a local girl, Christy alludes to women’s “shifts” — prompted raucous protests.
该剧首映时,其对民族自豪感和拘谨的冒犯——克里斯蒂在宣示他对当地女孩的爱的同时,暗指女性的“轮班”——引发了喧闹的抗议。
Washington Post

So, people at the central square resorted to shouting over the noise of raucous celebrations.
因此,在喧闹的庆祝活动中,中央广场的人们开始大喊大叫。
Washington Post

On Tuesday, she joined more than two dozen speakers — including fellow poll workers — condemning election mismanagement during a raucous county commissioners’ meeting.
周二,在喧闹的县委员会议上,她与包括投票站工作人员在内的超过 20 位发言人一起谴责选举管理不善。
Washington Post

基本释意
adjective
unpleasantly loud and harsh
adj. 沙哑的;刺耳的;粗声的

同义词
strident,rowdy

短释义
Raucous means unpleasantly loud, or behaving in a noisy and disorderly way. It can be hard to give an oral report in the front of a classroom when the kids in the back are being raucous.
Raucous 的意思是令人不快的大声,或者以嘈杂和无序的方式行事。当后面的孩子们很吵闹时,很难在教室前面做口头报告。

长释义
Raucous is often used to refer to loud laughter, loud voices, or a loud party, all of which can be harsh or unpleasant. Near synonyms are strident and rowdy. This adjective is from Latin raucus "hoarse." Think of raucous as people whose hoarseness can’t come on too soon.
Raucous 通常用来指大声的笑声、大声的声音或喧闹的派对,所有这些都可能是刺耳的或令人不快的。近义词是刺耳的和吵闹的。这个形容词来自拉丁语 raucus “嘶哑”。把沙哑想象成声音嘶哑不会很快出现的人。

文学例句
The moment the sound of raucous singing had hided around the corner, he slipped out of the gate and ran in the opposite direction.
喧闹的歌声刚一躲到拐角处,他就溜出大门,朝相反的方向跑去。
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

From outside came a whistle as wild and raucous as a reed and pitched high and strange.
外面传来一声哨子,像芦苇一样狂野而沙哑,音调又高又奇怪。
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

A dog barked as he rode through, and he heard a mule’s raucous haw from the stable, but otherwise the village was still.
他骑马经过时,一只狗在狂吠,他还听到马厩里传来骡子沙哑的叫声,除此之外,村子里一片寂静。
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

词源
raucous (adj.)"hoarse, harsh or croaking in sound," 1769, with -ous + Latin raucus "hoarse" (also source of French rauque, Spanish ronco, Italian rauco), from or related to ravus "hoarse," from Proto-Italic rawo-, from PIE echoic base reu- "to roar, make hoarse cries" (source also of Sanskrit rayati "barks," ravati "roars;" Greek oryesthai "to howl, roar;" Latin racco "a roar;" Old Church Slavonic rjevo "I roar;" Lithuanian rėkti "roar;" Old English rarian "to wail, bellow"). Middle English had rauc in the same sense, from Old French rauque and directly from Latin raucus.Related entries & more 

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
raucous(形容词)“嘶哑、刺耳或嘶哑的声音”,1769 年,带有 -ous + 拉丁语 raucus“嘶哑”(也是法语 rauque、西班牙语 ronco、意大利语 rauco 的来源),来自或与之相关的 ravus “嘶哑”,来自原始意大利语 rawo-,来自 PIE 回声基词 reu-“咆哮,发出嘶哑的哭声”(也源自梵语 rayati“吠叫”,ravati“咆哮”;希腊语 oryesthai“嚎叫,咆哮”;拉丁语 racco“a咆哮;”古教会斯拉夫语 rjevo“我咆哮”;”立陶宛语 rėkti“咆哮;”古英语 rarian“哀号,吼叫”)。中古英语有相同意义的 rauc,来自古法语 rauque,直接来自拉丁语 raucus。相关条目及更多


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