chaos
n. 大混乱, 混沌 [化] 混沌; 浑沌
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教材释义与例句
混沌，混乱
a situation in which everything is happening in a confused way and nothing is organized or arranged in order
The country was plunged into economic chaos.
这个国家陷入了经济大混乱。
释义与例句
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1.
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
混沌
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2.
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
混沌
混乱
浑沌
不可数to descend into chaos
After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos
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3.
A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
混沌
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4.
One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
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5.
A vast chasm or abyss.
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6.
A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
废旧 罕用 不可数
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词源
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”). Doublet of gas, which was borrowed through Dutch. Displaced native Old English dwolma. In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
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