rigmarole 词态变化
复数: rigmaroles;
rigmarole 中文词源
rigmarole 冗长复杂的手续改写自 ragman roll,长条清单或目录。字面意思为收破烂的铺盖卷，在 15 世纪时用于指列举 犯罪清单的法律文件，词源不详。
rigmarole 英文词源
- rigmarole
- rigmarole: [18] Rigmarole is a corruption of an earlier ragman roll, a term first encountered in the late 13th century. It denoted a roll of parchment used in a gambling game. The roll had things written on it, such as names, with pieces of string attached to them, and participants had to select a string at random. The word ragman may have been a contraction of ragged man, perhaps in allusion to the appearance of the roll, with all its bits of string hanging from it. Ragman roll eventually came to be used for any ‘list’ or ‘catalogue’, and ragman itself denoted a ‘long rambling discourse’ in 16th-century Scottish English – the meaning which had somehow transferred itself to rigmarole when it emerged in the early 18th century.
- rigmarole (n.)
- 1736, "a long, rambling discourse," apparently from an altered, Kentish colloquial survival of ragman roll "long list or catalogue" (1520s), in Middle English a long roll of verses descriptive of personal characters, used in a medieval game of chance called Rageman, perhaps from Anglo-French Ragemon le bon "Ragemon the good," which was the heading on one set of the verses, referring to a character by that name. Sense transferred to "foolish activity or commotion" by 1939.
rigmarole 英文释义
- 1. a set of confused and meaningless statements
- 2. a long and complicated and confusing procedure;
- "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"
rigmarole 双语例句
- 1. I couldn't be bothered to go through the rigmarole of changing clothes.
- 我不想再费事儿换衣服了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Then the whole rigmarole starts over again.
- 然后，整个漫长复杂的过程又重新开始了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. I couldn't face the whole rigmarole of getting a work permit again.
- 我无法再次面对获取工作许可证所需的各种冗长复杂的手续。
来自《权威词典》
- 4. I've never heard such a rigmarole.
- 我从来没听过像这样的长篇废话.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. He had to go through the usual rigmarole of signing legal papers in order to complete the business deal.
- 为了达成这笔交易,他不得不一一通过通常的签署法律文件的繁琐程序.
来自《简明英汉词典》
rigmarole 实用场景例句
- I couldn't be bothered to go through the rigmarole of changing clothes.
- 我不想再费事儿换衣服了。
柯林斯例句
- Then the whole rigmarole starts over again.
- 然后，整个漫长复杂的过程又重新开始了。
柯林斯例句
- I couldn't face the whole rigmarole of getting a work permit again.
- 我无法再次面对获取工作许可证所需的各种冗长复杂的手续。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- I've never heard such a rigmarole.
- 我从来没听过像这样的长篇废话.
《简明英汉词典》
- He had to go through the usual rigmarole of signing legal papers in order to complete the business deal.
- 为了达成这笔交易,他不得不一一通过通常的签署法律文件的繁琐程序.
《简明英汉词典》
- She told me some rigmarole or other having lost her keys.
- 她跟我说了一大堆冗长的废话,说她怎样丢了钥匙等等.
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- She told me some rigmarole or other about having lost her keys.
- 她向我拉拉杂杂说了一大套关于丢失钥匙的事.
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- This rigmarole may provide passing entertainment.
- 这些胡言乱语也许不过是暂时的消遣.
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- Commercial transactions involve extraordinary amounts of legal rigmarole – all implicitly stimulated by our learned friends.
- 商业交易涉及了太多法律上的繁文缛节——这都是那些精通法律的朋友们在暗中推动.
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