• n. 球拍；吵鬧，喧鬧
• vt. 過著花天酒地的生活
• vi. 過著花天酒地的生活

擬聲詞，模仿嘰嘰喳喳的聲音，并由此引申詞義混水摸魚，放煙霧彈，詐騙等。

racket

racket: Racket for playing tennis [16] and racket ‘noise’ [16] are unrelated words. The former was borrowed from French raquette, which originally meant ‘palm of the hand’. This goes back via Italian racchetta to Arabic rāhat, a variant of rāha ‘palm of the hand’. The origins of racket ‘noise’ are not known, although the probability is that it started life as a verbal imitation of an uproar.

racket (n.1)

"loud noise," 1560s, perhaps imitative. Klein compares Gaelic racaid "noise." Meaning "dishonest activity" (1785) is perhaps from racquet, via notion of "game," reinforced by rack-rent "extortionate rent" (1590s), from rack (n.1). But it might as well be an extended sense of "loud noise" by way of "noise or disturbance made to distract a pick-pocket's victim."

racket (n.2)

"handled paddle or netted bat used in tennis, etc.;" see racquet.

1. Suspicious fans exposed the racket and police arrested a man in Nottingham.

起了疑心的愛好者揭發了這一勾當，警察在諾丁漢逮捕了一名男子。

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2. A furious player kicked his racket into the grandstand.

一位憤怒的球員將他的球拍踢向了看臺。

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3. The racket of drills and electric saws went on past midnight.

鉆孔機和電鋸的噪聲過了半夜還繼續響著。

來自柯林斯例句

4. A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.

走私活動每年都會導致數千只珍奇鳥類死亡。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He makes such a racket I'm afraid he disturbs the neighbours.

他如此大聲喧鬧，我怕他打擾了鄰居。

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