unruly

形容人群、行为或局面难以控制、缺乏秩序，常带有喧闹、躁动或不守规矩的意味。

💡 记忆钩子

把一群人想象成脱离缰绳、四处乱冲的队伍：它们不安分、不受约束，于是变得喧闹而混乱。由此，unruly既可形容难以管束的人群，也可形容不守规矩的行为或局面。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 难以管束的；混乱的

📖 形容人、群体或行为不安分、不守规矩，已经难以被控制或维持秩序；也可指因此显得喧闹、混乱的局面。

💡 常用“unruly crowd/group/behavior”这类结构，后面接被形容的对象；描述人群时通常强调整体难以控制，而不是说每个人都一定粗暴。它带有明显的负面意味，适合公共秩序、纪律和管理语境，不宜随意用来表示普通的“活泼”。

The teacher struggled to keep the unruly students quiet.

老师费了很大力气才让那群不守规矩的学生安静下来。

An unruly crowd blocked the entrance to the stadium.

一群喧闹而难以控制的人堵住了体育场入口。

unrulier comparative unruliest superlative

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

incapable of being controlled

同义词集: indocile uncontrollable ungovernable unruly

the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly

近似: difficult, unmanageable

noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; ; ; ;

同义词集: boisterous rambunctious robustious rumbustious unruly

a boisterous crowd

a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand

a robustious group of teenagers

beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings

an unruly class

近似: disorderly

unwilling to submit to authority

同义词集: disobedient unruly

unruly teenagers

🌳 词源

源自中古英语，可能还受到古诺斯语中表示“不安、躁动”的相关词影响；其核心一直围绕“不安定、难以约束”。

From Middle English unruly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + rule + -ly (compare Middle English ruly, reuli (“subject to a religious rule, regular”)), but also representing a modified continuation of earlier Middle English unrouly, unroly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + roolie. The latter is perhaps from or influenced by Old Norse *úróligr, related to Danish urolig (“restless”), Swedish orolig (“restless”), Icelandic órólegur (“agitated”). Compare also Middle English unroo, unro (“unrest”). More at roo.

🔄 变式

unrulier compar unruliest superl

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