roaring(adj.)
"那咆哮或吼叫的声音; 制造或以噪音或骚乱为特征的",14世纪晚期,现在分词形容词来自 roar(v.)。用于以嘈杂狂欢为特征的年代,特别是 roaring twenties(1930年,OED 归功于“战后的繁荣”); 但在澳大利亚,也用于 roaring fifties(1892年,指1851年新南威尔士淘金热)。在指南纬40至50度之间的异常汹涌海域时, Roaring Forties 自1841年以来被证实。
The "roaring fifties" are still remembered as the days when Australia held a prosperity never equalled in the world's history and a touch of romance as well. The gold fever never passed away from the land. [E.C. Buley, "Australian Life in Town and Country," 1905]
“咆哮的五十年代”仍然被记忆为澳大利亚拥有世界历史上前所未有的繁荣和浪漫气息的日子。淘金热从未离开这片土地。[E.C. Buley,“城乡澳大利亚生活”,1905年]
Roaring boys, roaring lads, swaggerers : ruffians : slang names applied, about the beginning of the seventeenth century, to the noisy, riotous roisterers who infested the taverns and the streets of London, and, in general, acted the part of the Mohocks of a century later. Roaring girls are also alluded to by the old dramatists, though much less frequently. [Century Dictionary]
咆哮男孩,咆哮小伙子,吹牛大王:恶棍:17世纪初期,伦敦酒馆和街头上出没的喧闹、暴乱的骚扰者的俚语名称,总的来说,扮演了一个世纪后的摩霍克的角色。虽然老剧作家很少提到 Roaring girls。[世纪词典]
这是来自于旧伦敦俚语中 roar(v.)的用法,意为“表现出暴乱和欺凌的行为”(1580年代)。
该词起源时间:14世纪末