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 helter-skelter ['heltә'skeltә添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 慌张, 螺旋滑梯

ad. 慌张, 无计划地




    helter-skelter
    [ adv ]
    1. haphazardly

    2. <adv.all>
      the books were piled up helter-skelter
    [ adj ]
    1. lacking a visible order or organization

    2. <adj.all>
    3. with undue hurry and confusion

    4. <adj.all>
      a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause
      a pell-mell dash for the train


    Helter-skelter \Hel"ter-skel"ter\, adv. [An onomat?poetic word.
    Cf. G. holter-polter, D. holder de bolder.]
    In hurry and confusion; without definite purpose;
    irregularly. [Colloq.]

    Helter-skelter have I rode to thee. --Shak.

    A wistaria vine running helter-skelter across the roof.
    --J. C.
    Harris.

    1. But the price of this economic activity is a landscape marred by deforestation and erosion, a crush of roads and helter-skelter development, and the traffic and waste of 100 million annual visitors.
    2. Barnstorming the countryside in an unreliable Volkswagen bus, Mr. Cardenas had the sort of helter-skelter intensity that Americans have seen in Jesse Jackson's presidential bid.
    3. As Japan rebuilt itself helter-skelter on the rubble of World War II, people returning from China and Korea made a living peddling goods on the streets, moving to indoor premises when they had saved enough.
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