free-for-alls
- n.混战;大吵大闹;自由放任;不加管制;众人激烈争辩
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N-SING 可自由参加的活动;众人同时争抢的情形
A free-for-all is a situation in which several people or groups are trying to get something for themselves and there are no controls on how they do it. -
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N-COUNT 混战;群架;众人都参与的争吵
A free-for-all is a disorganized fight or argument which lots of people join in.
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Often these parental conversations then turn into new-agey free-for-alls , where vaccines somehow join the list of conventionally grown avocados and unfiltered tap water as lethal menaces .
父母们对孩子的这些关切常常成为所有人可以免费获得的新异类，疫苗不知怎么就像常见的成熟鳄梨或未经过滤的自来水一样成了威胁性命的玩艺。
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The results were likely to add to worries that the lack of tough rules against bribery will lead to damaging free-for-alls between States and multinationals competing for official contracts and resources in Africa and other parts of the world .
排名结果可能加剧人们的担忧，即缺乏严厉的反贿赂法规，可能导致各国政府和跨国企业为争夺非洲及世界其它地区的官方合约和资源，而进行有害的争抢。