Brawl

(noun.) a noisy fight in a crowd.

(verb.) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; 'The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street'.

校对:弗恩

• A British subject was killed in a street brawl, and a Japanese town was bombarded by the British (1863). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He does not take a drink so that he may become an habitual drunkard, or be locked up in jail, or get into a brawl, or lose his job, or go insane. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He was not only a professional peacemaker, but from practice a hater of all feuds and brawls. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• No brawling, said the Knight, it is but a friendly interchange of courtesy. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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