| 词汇 | hotchpotch |
| 释义 | hotchpotch noun[ Cusually singular ] mainly UKuk /ˈhɒtʃ.pɒtʃ/ us /ˈhɑːtʃ.pɑːtʃ/(US usuallyhodgepodge) a confused mixture of different things: 大杂烩 hotchpotch ofNew Age thinking seems to be a hotchpotch of old and new ideas.新时代思想似乎就是新旧思想的大杂烩。 Synonyms farragoformaldisapproving mishmashinformal 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 hotchpotchhotchpotch It is a hotchpotch of disparate elements which are held together by their shared status of science's outcasts. He proposed the introduction of a general law of incorporation and the abolition of special-charter state banks which encouraged a hotchpotch of note issues. Implicit in the party's promise of the ' national community ', as it bid for power, were proposals to improve the well-being of its hotchpotch constituency, including workers. Many people find it unsatisfactory that there is a hotchpotch of road schemes, some wider and some a little narrower, and some dual carriageway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is increasingly resembling a hotchpotch: everyone has a say and makes proposals, which leaves us ultimately with a kind of wish list. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In fact, this is but a hotchpotch of arrangements which each local authority proposes without any idea of what the national guidance should be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is the development plan just a hotchpotch of all sorts of bits and pieces, or is it something that is definitely planned? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With respect, that is rather a hotchpotch of questions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have never been to a more ramshackle hotchpotch of disorganised chaos in all my life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Paragraph 83 reads like a hotchpotch of demands put forward at one of those inter-departmental meetings of economic advisers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The form of our defence debates is by necessity somewhat of a hotchpotch. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a muddled hotchpotch of confused thinking and party prejudice; converted into contradictory proposals with incompatible objectives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The electoral system seems to be a real hotchpotch. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the moment we have got what has been described time and time again as a "hotchpotch". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what is in this mean, common, little hotchpotch of irrelevance. 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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