hubbub: [16] Hubbub is an Irish contribution to English. It comes from Irish Gaelic hooboobbes, which appears to be related to the Old Irish battle-cry abú. This was a derivative of buide ‘victory’ (a relative of which across the Irish Sea formed the basis of the name Boudicca or Boadicea, the Ancient Britons’ version of Victoria). English acquired the word (and the now disused longer form hubbuboo) in the mid 16th century, and originally used it for the ‘warcry of a savage tribe’; the modern sense ‘noisy turmoil’ developed in the 17th century.
hubbub (n.)
1550s, whobub "confused noise," generally believed to be of Irish origin, perhaps from Gaelic ub!, expression of aversion or contempt, or Old Irish battle cry abu, from buide "victory."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. It was difficult to hear what he was saying over the hubbub.
聲音太嘈雜，難以聽(tīng)清楚他的講話(huà)。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. A hubbub was heard in the courtyard.
院子里一片吵鬧聲.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
3. In all the hubbub over the election, one might be excused for missing yesterday's announcement.
在選舉造成的一片混亂中，沒(méi)有聽(tīng)到昨天的公告也是情有可原的。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
4. In the hubbub of city life, it is hard for us to imagine the people and the things of the past, and how indeed these people felt about the world.