"a parchment," mid-15c., earlier "skin, hide" (mid-14c.), from Anglo-French pell, Old French pel "skin" (13c., Modern French peau), from Latin pellem, pellis "skin, leather, parchment, hide" (see film (n.)).
雙語例句
1. All three of us rushed pell-mell into the kitchen.
我們三人全都匆忙跑進廚房。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The shelf contained a pell - mell assortment of English novels.
那書架上有一批雜亂的英國小說.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. They all pell - melled out of that river.
他們全從那條河倉促地上了岸.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. The enemy fled pell - mell before us.
敵人倉皇逃竄.
來自辭典例句
5. Men on horseback dashed out of side streets pell - mell down Peachtree toward Hood's headquarters.