rampage

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ram·page1 /ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræmpeɪdʒ/ verb [intransitive] SDAMAGEto rush about in groups, acting in a wild or violent way 横冲直撞rampage through Drunken football fans rampaged through the streets. 喝醉酒的足球迷在街上横冲直撞。→ See Verb table

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rampage• You know the ingredients: rustic setting, wizened Lothario, coltish Romany beauty, rampaging passion, frightened sheep etc.• For example, the challenging, rampaging storms of Turner's seascapes are, like most romantic paintings, energetically anticlockwise.• The Orcs rampaged through Solland for weeks, burned and looting, until turning north once more towards Altdorf.• In Gause, Texas, blacks rampaged through the city, destroying property.• Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.rampage through• Anti-government demonstrators rampaged through the capital today.rampage2 noun on the rampage DAMAGErushing about in a wild and violent way, often causing damage 横冲直撞 gangs of youths on the rampage 一伙伙横冲直撞的年轻人 Rioters went on the rampage through the town. 暴徒在镇上横冲直撞。

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rampage• It went on a rampage and mercilessly drilled another robot.• Dietz pointed to testimony by a psychiatrist who examined Davis after his three-county rampage in 1976 as critical in the case.• Financially secure for the first time, Gamble and Huff went on a creative rampage.• Until his rampage, Hamilton operated a club for elementary schoolboys in space rented at Dunblane High School.• Second-placed Cardiff went on the rampage, crossing for six tries in an impressive 39-3 demolition of Newport at Rodney Parade.• So we went on the rampage.• So long as radicals were on the rampage, staying in the centre meant leaning ever farther towards liberal reform.Origin rampage1 (1700-1800) Perhaps from ramp “to act or move wildly” ((14-21 centuries)), from French ramper; → RAMPANT