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tumult

\TOO-mult; TYOO-mult\, noun
1. The commotion or agitation of a crowd, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
2. Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, "the tumult of the elements."
3. Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, "the tumult of the spirits or passions."
--tumultuous, adjective
1. 吵闹;喧哗
The tumult in the streets awakened everyone in the house.
街上的喧哗吵醒了屋子里的每一个人。
2. 骚乱,骚动;混乱
3. (思想、情绪等的)波动,激动
Her mind was in a tumult.
她心烦意乱。

Just imagine, reader, a reduction of the centuries and a parade of all of them, all races, all passions, the tumult of empires, the war of appetites and hates, the reciprocal destruction of creatures and things.
~Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated by Gregory Rabassa)

The Irish Sea has been polluted, the aeroplanes roar above our heads, preparing for the next war; but this is the work of man. Seeing the dew in the morning and the beauty of the sea at sunset; listening to the silence after the aeroplanes have ceased their tumult, I have just as good a right to my faith as he has to his atheism.
~R.S. Thomas, quoted in "In pursuit of the Deus absconditus", Irish Times, July 5, 1997

Roger W. Ferguson Jr. was not a kid prone to the irrational exuberance of youth. He first aspired to being a Federal Reserve governor when he was in high school. 'I spent most of my time studying', said Ferguson, who grew up in Washington amid the tumult and giddiness of the 1960s.
~"Spotlight Turns to Fed Nominee", Washington Post, August 14, 1999

A long Tumult of Passions which naturally rise in a Lover's Heart.
~Joseph Addison, Spectator No. 164, 1711

Tumult is from Latin tumultus, from tumeo, tumere, to swell; to swell with anger or excitement.



Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
                                                                                                 ~Mother Teresa

善意的话语很短、很容易说、但他们的回响是永无止境的。
                                                                        ——德兰修女



My thunder comes before my lightning. My lightning comes before my rain. My rain dries up all the land it touches. What am I?
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