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单词 passel
释义

passel

/ˈpas(ə)l /
noun informal, chiefly US
A large group of people or things: a passel of journalists...
  • ‘No,’ said my husband Jack, ‘you're raising a passel of hicks.’
  • And there aren't a passel of younger children around to give your daughters a close-up view of what having one of your own to care for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with no time off for good behavior, might look like.
  • Instead of black-tie fund-raising dinners, the whole passel of these incumbents ought to be sitting at America's kitchen tables, listening to reality… and responding.

Origin

Mid 19th century: representing a pronunciation of parcel.

Rhymes

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