hotchpotch

英 ['hɒtʃpɒtʃ] 美 ['hɑtʃ'pɑtʃ]

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hotchpotch 大杂烩，杂乱无章

来自古法语hochepot,热罐，来自hocher,摇，pot,罐子。原指把肉，草药，香料，酒和其它调料加在一起炖的炖锅菜，引申词义大杂烩，杂乱无章。

hotchpotch: hotchpotch: [15] Hotchpotch is an alteration (for the sake of the rhyme) of an earlier hotchpot. This was borrowed from an Old French compound made up of hocher ‘shake’ (perhaps from Frankish hottisōn) and pot ‘pot’. So originally the word meant literally ‘shake the pot’ – presumably to blend an assortment of ingredients, although it is not certain that the allusion was in the first instance culinary. (Old French hocher, incidentally, may well have been the source of the Scottish verb hotch ‘shake, fidget’ [14].)

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2. His essay was a hotchpotch of other people's ideas.: 他的文章是把别人的想法拼凑在一起的大杂烩.

3. They are all a hotchpotch of outstandingness and of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.: 她们皆是伟大与渺小,善良与邪恶, 高尚与低俗的混合体.

4. This suggests that a carbon tax would be more efficient than the current hotchpotch of policies.: 这说明,一条碳税政策就比当前一堆乱七八糟的政策更具实效.