Word · Frequency #20725
fracas
喧闹；吵闹；纷扰
noisy quarrel
- 1.
A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
喧闹混乱的争吵、打斗、骚乱或扭打。
喧闹混乱的争吵、打斗、骚乱或扭打。；喧噪；吵闹；纷扰
In use
The meeting ended in a fracas when two coworkers started shouting at each other.
A loud fracas outside the theater attracted a crowd before security arrived.
Their disagreement over the parking space quickly turned into a fracas.
get into a fracas (with sb)
get into a fracas 表示卷入一场喧闹的争吵，with 后接争吵对象。
He got into a fracas with a stranger at the bar.
他在酒吧和一个陌生人发生了一场争吵。
a fracas over sth
over 引出争吵的原因。
The two fans had a fracas over a seat.
这两名粉丝为了一个座位大吵了一架。
a fracas between A and B
between 用于说明争吵发生在双方之间。
A fracas between the two groups broke out after the match.
比赛结束后，两个团体之间爆发了一场争吵。
in the fracas
in the fracas 常用于描述在争吵过程中发生的事情。
Three people were injured in the fracas.
有三个人在这场争吵中受了伤。
Common mistakes
They had fracas in the street.They had a fracas in the street.
fracas 是可数名词，单数形式前需要加冠词 a/an；汉语里的“吵闹”没有单复数概念，所以容易漏掉冠词。
There were several fracas outside the bar.There were several fracases outside the bar.
fracas 的复数是规则变化 fracases（加 -es），不能把单数形式直接当作复数使用。
They fracased about the loud music.They had a fracas about the loud music.
fracas 是名词，不是动词；表示“发生争吵”要用 have a fracas，不能把它当作动词来变位。
Connections
Collocations
- a fracas broke out
- 爆发一场争吵/打斗
- A fracas broke out among the fans after the final whistle.终场哨声响起后，球迷之间爆发了一场斗殴。
- a violent fracas
- 激烈的打斗
- A violent fracas in the street sent people running for cover.街头的一场激烈打斗使人们纷纷躲避。
- in the fracas
- 在这场骚乱中
- Three people were injured in the fracas.有三人在这场骚乱中受伤。
- a drunken fracas
- 酒后斗殴
- He got a black eye in a drunken fracas outside the nightclub.他在夜总会外的一场酒后斗殴中被打青了眼。
- a fracas between
- …之间的争斗
- A fracas between two drivers blocked the intersection.两名司机之间的争吵堵塞了十字路口。
- a political fracas
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 fracas 拆成 frac + cas：争吵像 fracture（破碎）一样让平静破裂，瞬间变成 chaos（混乱），只剩一片喧噪。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：newspaper reports、literary writing、formal descriptions of public disputes 该词通常用于正式或书面语境，多出现在新闻报道和文学描写中，表示“喧闹的争吵”；日常口语中比较少见，可改用 quarrel 或 fight。
Pronunciation & Spelling
No common English word rhymes exactly with /ˈfrækɑː/. Among the words above, atlas, canvas, alias, and bias all end in the weak syllable /əs/; gas and class end in /æs/. The final -as in fracas is pronounced /ɑː/, with the s silent.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.