rough-and-tumble
adjective
us/ˈrʌf ən ˈtʌm·bəl/verycompetitiveandfailingtopayattentiontorules:
rough-and-tumblepolitics
rough and tumble
fightingbetweenchildrenthat is notserious:
孩子间的小打斗It was just abitofroughandtumble.那只不过是孩子间的小打小闹。
abusyactivitythatpeopledo in a veryforcefulway:
激烈的竞争；混战Sheenjoystheroughandtumbleofpolitics.她喜欢复杂的政治斗争。
General words for fun
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- sport
- whimsy
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rough-and-tumble| American Dictionary
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During the first half of the century in arough-and-tumblecolony, physical aggressiveness turned out to be a real asset.
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It demonstrated its capacities for politicalrough-and-tumblein the early days of its reformation in the 1560s and early 1570s.
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If a pain expression communicates to conspecifics, then perhaps it arose not during threat or trauma but as a means of keepingrough-and-tumbleplay from becoming dangerous.
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Having a general criminal prohibition against insult may make more sense in a highlyordered society with well-established patterns of deference and civility than in a more loosely organized,rough-and-tumblesociety.
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Furthermore, certain emotional states are independent of the occurrence of rewards or punishments, for instance, many moods and the joys of young animals that underlierough-and-tumbleplay.
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We must at all costs have a goodrough-and-tumbleforce on the frontier, and an armed gendarmerie, with modern equipment, for the plains.
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But the men who did therough-and-tumblework and the dangerous work are living in the workhouse and are in a condition of penury.
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There was arough-and-tumbleand chairs were broken, the audience standing on tiptoe to watch the proceedings.
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I have changed from manyrough-and-tumbleand bitter ideas and hatreds of the past.
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I have been in therough-and-tumbleof political life long enough to avoid falling down even well-greased stairs.
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It is, of course, perfectly true that arough-and-tumbleis news, while a happy evening by the television is not.
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Parliamentary life and electioneering, say what you like, arerough-and-tumbleproceedings.
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In my experience, having worked with women in the actualrough-and-tumbleof industrial labour, women are quite as capable of forming a judgment as are men.
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Sometimes, but not in all cases, they are not used to therough-and-tumbleof the administration of the law which those who have practised in the country know.
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Rats emit short, high frequency, ultrasonic, vocalizations during purportedly pleasurable experiences such asrough-and-tumbleplay, before receiving morphine, during mating, and when tickled.
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