hue and cry是什么意思_hue and cry的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

Just as the show ended, he heard a huge hue and cry outside.

正当演出结束的时候，他听到外面一阵喧嚣的愤怒抗议。
The workers raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.

工人们吵吵闹闹反对新规定。
He soon took up the hue and cry of "Mama doesn't make it that way."

很快，他也开始喊叫哭闹“妈妈不那样做菜。”
Only a few of the private shopowners raised a great hue and cry against the new rule.

只有几个私营店主大叫大嚷，反对新规定。
"Stop thief," cried Smith as he ran. Others joined him, and soon there was a hue and cry.

“抓小偷，”史密斯边跑边喊。其他人同他一起追喊着。

释义

a loud clamour or public outcry

叫嚣声，公众的疾呼。

historical a loud cry calling for the pursuit and capture of a criminal. In former English law, the cry had to be raised by the inhabitants of a hundred in which a robbery had been committed, if they were not to become liable for the damages suffered by the victim.

〈史〉喊捉声，捉拿声（追捕罪犯的叫喊声；在以前的英国法律中，在抢劫案发生的百户邑中，居民们必须呼喊抓贼，否则将对受害者遭受的损失负责）。

词源

"late Middle English： from the Anglo-Norman French legal phrase hu e cri, literally ‘outcry and cry', from Old French hu ‘outcry' （from huer ‘to shout’）."