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词汇 turmoil
释义 turmoil
noun[ S or U ]
uk /ˈtɜː.mɔɪl/ us /ˈtɝː.mɔɪl/
C2
a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder: 混乱,骚乱,动乱
The whole region is in turmoil.整个地区一片混乱。
The country is in a state of political turmoil.该国正处于政治动荡中。
The Stock Exchange is in turmoil following a huge wave of selling.在经历了一场抛售狂潮后,股市正处于动荡之中。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Social order & disorder
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disturb
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instability
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rioting
riotousness
social exclusion
strife
turbulence
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Confusion, confusing and feeling confused

turmoil | American Dictionary


turmoil
noun[ U ]
us/ˈtɜr·mɔɪl/
a state of extreme confusion, uncertainty, or lack of order:
Her mind was in turmoil.
She grew up in the turmoil of the 1960s.

Examples of turmoil


turmoil
A really good question speaks from common sense and, because it does, the results can be expected to produce vast social turmoil.
Instead, it was a series of ad hoc measures implemented in a struggle to prevent chaos and to stop revolutionary turmoil.
I reached this conclusion with substantial unease and turmoil.
It was written in years of extraordinary economic expansion and revolutionary turmoil.
The daughters, on the other hand, grew up during times of rapid change and turmoil but experienced relative abundance.
Shortly before passage, turmoil over private benefits was intense and interest in state measures heightened.
The dynamics of the party system may either inhibit or exacerbate turmoil and violence.
Even the dream of it has brought to the country division, turmoil and tyranny.
But prefects, like nonofficeholding students, were divided and played ambiguous roles in the turmoil.
In the turmoil of the sixties and early seventies, however, such voices were by no means unchallenged.
These hesitations and waverings do sometimes occur, and they made behaviorists uncomfortable because they suggested that animals might be in mental turmoil over difficult trials.
The huge initial costs of the program and the turmoil of the late 1960s pushed any expansion of the program off the immediate political agenda.
It took several years of economic turmoil before the uniform cost-of-living adjustment was finally abolished and its promoters admitted their mistake.
Instead of high economic growth and national development, we have seen a series of economic crises, the collapse of states, and religious and ethnic turmoil.
Reforms usually occur in a context of political turmoil and chaos, with interest groups being challenged and decisions being made at an accelerated pace.
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Collocations withturmoil


turmoil

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economic turmoil
However, as economicturmoil increased, the government grew increasingly autocratic.
emotional turmoil
This could have been due to bringing out issues that stirred emotionalturmoil without resolving them.
inner turmoil
Medea's innerturmoil was conveyed through the use of contrasting rhythms.
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