词汇 | pandemonium |
词源 | pandemonium. English poet John Milton gave us this word for wild lawlessness, tumult, or chaos when he dubbed the capi- tal of hell Pandaemonium in Paradise Lost. He coined the word from the Greek for “all demons.” |
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