higgledy-piggledy
adj. 混乱的
n. 混乱
adv. 混乱地
adv.& adj.
杂乱无章地（的）；错落不齐；慌里慌张；
英英释义
higgledy-piggledy[ 'hiɡldi'piɡldi ]
adj.in utter disorder
同义词：disorderlyhugger-muggerjumbledtopsy-turvy
adv.in a disordered manner
"they were piled up higgledy-piggledy"
同义词：topsy-turvy
双语例句
Files were scattered (all) higgledy-piggledy about the office.
办公室里文件乱七八糟地满处都是。
权威例句
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higgledy-piggledy
"confusedly, hurriedly," 1590s, a "vocal gesture" [OED] probably formed from pig and the animal's suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h-/p- pattern are common (as in hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hinch(y)-pinch(y), an obsolete children's game, attested from c. 1600). Edward Moor, "Suffolk Words and Phrases" (London, 1823), quotes a list of reduplications from Ray's "Collection of English Words" (1768), all said to "signify any confusion or mixture;" the list has higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, hodge-podge, mingle-mangle, arsy-versy, kim-kam, hub-bub, crawly-mauly, and hab-nab. "To which he might have added," Moor writes, crincum-crankum, crinkle-crankle, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, gibble-gabble, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, hiccup-suickup, hocus-pocus, hotch-potch, hugger-mugger, hum-drum, hum-strum, hurry-scurry, jibber-jabber, prittle-prattle, shilly-shally, tittle-tattle, and topsy-turvy. Many of them seem to date to the 16th century.
1. Files were strewn higgledy-piggledy over the floor.
文件乱七八糟地扔了一地。
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2. Books are often stacked in higgledy-piggledy piles on the floor.
书本经常乱七八糟地堆放在地板上。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3. Nor does he attempt to be methodical; chapters proceed higgledy-piggledy in tiny numbered sections.
他也不试图按部就班地展开陈述；各章节杂乱无章地包含着编号的许多个小节。
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4. The search function is so obligingthat everything anyone has ever sent me can be left lying around higgledy-piggledy in the cloud and it will locate it again in a jiffy.
邮箱搜索功能是如此有用，以至于任何人发给过我的任何东西都可以杂乱无章地存放在存储云中，而通过搜索功能又可以一瞬间将其找到。
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5. If the cell then botches the repair, stitching the fragments back together in a 'higgledy piggledy' fashion, the damage to its cache of DNA, leaves it ripe for the rapid development of cancer.
如果这个细胞开始笨拙地修补，把碎片杂乱的缝合起来，这样就破坏了原来的DNA结构，为癌症的快速形成提供了条件。
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6. If the cell then botches the repair, stitching the fragments back together in a 'higgledy piggledy' fashion, the damage to its cache of DNA, leaves it ripe for the rapid development of cancer.
如果这个细胞开始笨拙地修补，把碎片杂乱的缝合起来，这样就破坏了原来的DNA结构，为癌症的快速形成提供了条件。
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