hotchpotch

hotchpotch

英 ['hɒtʃpɒtʃ]
　　美 ['hɑtʃ'pɑtʃ]

n. 雜燴

中文詞源：

hotchpotch 大雜燴，雜亂無章

來自古法語hochepot,熱罐，來自hocher,搖，pot,罐子。原指把肉，草藥，香料，酒和其它調料加在一起燉的燉鍋菜，引申詞義大雜燴，雜亂無章。

例句：

1. Garton pensively stirred the hotchpotch of his hair.
加頓沉思著攪動自己的亂發.

2. His essay was a hotchpotch of other people's ideas.
他的文章是把別人的想法拼湊在一起的大雜燴.

3. They are all a hotchpotch of outstandingness and of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.
她們皆是偉大與渺小,善良與邪惡, 高尚與低俗的混合體.

4. This suggests that a carbon tax would be more efficient than the current hotchpotch of policies.
這說明,一條碳稅政策就比當前一堆亂七八糟的政策更具實效.