| 词汇 | farrago |
| 释义 | farrago noun[ C ] USformaldisapprovinguk /fəˈrɑː.ɡəʊ/ us /fəˈrɑː.ɡoʊ/pluralfarragos or USfarragoes a confused mixture: 大杂烩；混杂物 farrago ofHe told us a farrago of lies.他给我们讲了一大堆谎话。 Synonyms hodgepodgeUS hotchpotchmainly UK mishmashinformal ragbag Variety and mixtures all manner of somethingidiom alphabet soup assorted assortment biodiverse hybridize hybridized it takes all sorts (to make a world)idiom jumble kludge odds and ends of every stripe/of all stripesidiom panoply patchwork polycentric this this and thatidiom variety is the spice of lifeidiom variously wide choice Examples of farragofarrago To deal simultaneously with such a farrago of activities will inevitably confuse discussions about management. His reply was an absolute farrago of nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My amendment suggests that we leave out that farrago—that misleading collection of titles—and quite simply insert the words, "chartered or incorporated engineers and engineering technicians". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no defence to say that the amendment itself is a farrago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, the legislation must not be in response to a farrago of prejudice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He read out an absolute farrago of words. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had from him a thunderous farrago of nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everyone knows that that is just a farrago of nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was a misquoted farrago and tissue of innuendo and hopeless, incompetent fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The long and short of it is that the present law is a farrago of nonsense, and much of it is virtually unenforceable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On both sides this is a huge facade—a farrago—to establish other taxation systems to collect £1 in every £10 of local authority revenue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, most of what he is saying is a farrago of nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us look through this sickening farrago of deception. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So this seems to me to be an overwhelmingly strong argument for taking another look at the whole of this farrago of surtax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The words of this motion are a farrago of nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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