higgledy-piggledy
英 ['hiɡldi'piɡldi]
美
- adj. 混乱的
- n. 混乱
- adv. 混乱地
英英释义
- 1. in utter disorder;
- "a disorderly pile of clothes"
实用场景例句
- Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
- 书本经常乱七八糟地堆在地板上。
柯林斯例句
- A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant.
- 整个山谷里巨石翻滚，就像有巨人在狂扔乱掷。
柯林斯例句
- Files were strewn higgledy-piggledy over the floor.
- 文件乱七八糟地扔了一地。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- Resources are allotted higgledy - piggledy, and duplication of effort is always rampant.
- 其资源分配高度混乱, 重复的努力也总是无法控制.
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- A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy - piggledy as though by some giant.
- 满山谷的大石头像被巨人乱糟糟地乱扔一样.
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- The books were higgledy - piggledy on the table.
- 桌上的书乱糟糟的.
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- Files were scattered ( all ) higgledy - piggledy about the office.
- 办公室里文件乱七八糟地满处都是.
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- He thrust clothes higgledy - piggledy into plastic bags.
- 他把衣服乱糟糟地塞进塑胶袋.
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- They were piled up higgledy - piggledy.
- 它们被杂乱地堆放在一起.
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中文词源
higgledy-piggledy 杂乱无章
俚语，可能由pig杜撰出来的同韵词。因猪圈脏乱差而引申该词义。
英文词源
- higgledy-piggledy
- "confusedly, hurriedly," 1590s, a "vocal gesture" [OED] probably formed from pig and the animal's suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h-/p- pattern are common (as in hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hinch(y)-pinch(y), an obsolete children's game, attested from c. 1600).
Edward Moor, "Suffolk Words and Phrases" (London, 1823), quotes a list of reduplications from Ray's "Collection of English Words" (1768), all said to "signify any confusion or mixture;" the list has higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, hodge-podge, mingle-mangle, arsy-versy, kim-kam, hub-bub, crawly-mauly, and hab-nab. "To which he might have added," Moor writes, crincum-crankum, crinkle-crankle, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, gibble-gabble, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, hiccup-suickup, hocus-pocus, hotch-potch, hugger-mugger, hum-drum, hum-strum, hurry-scurry, jibber-jabber, prittle-prattle, shilly-shally, tittle-tattle, and topsy-turvy. Many of them seem to date to the 16th century.