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单词 farrago
释义
farrago
noun[C]
USformaldisapproving
uk
/fəˈrɑː.ɡəʊ/us
/fəˈrɑː.ɡoʊ/
pluralfarragosorUSfarragoes
aconfusedmixture:
大杂烩；混杂物
He told us a farragooflies.他给我们讲了一大堆谎话。
Synonyms
hodgepodgeUS
hotchpotchmainlyUK
mishmashinformal
ragbag
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(Definition offarragofrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffarrago

farrago
To deal simultaneously with such afarragoof activities will inevitably confuse discussions about management.
From theCambridge English Corpus
His reply was an absolutefarragoof nonsense.
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My amendment suggests that we leave out thatfarrago—that misleading collection of titles—and quite simply insert the words, "chartered or incorporated engineers and engineering technicians".
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It is no defence to say that the amendment itself is afarrago.
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Secondly, the legislation must not be in response to afarragoof prejudice.
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He read out an absolutefarragoof words.
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We had from him a thunderousfarragoof nonsense.
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Everyone knows that that is just afarragoof nonsense.
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That was a misquotedfarragoand tissue of innuendo and hopeless, incompetent fact.
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The long and short of it is that the present law is afarragoof nonsense, and much of it is virtually unenforceable.
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On both sides this is a huge facade—afarrago—to establish other taxation systems to collect £1 in every £10 of local authority revenue.
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In other words, most of what he is saying is afarragoof nonsense.
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Let us look through this sickeningfarragoof deception.
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So this seems to me to be an overwhelmingly strong argument for taking another look at the whole of thisfarragoof surtax.
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The words of this motion are afarragoof nonsense.
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