1The interruption of a settled and peaceful condition.

直升飞机着陆会干扰居民。

1. 1.1 A breakdown of peaceful and law-abiding behavior; a riot.
   动乱；暴乱
   the disturbances were precipitated when four men were refused bail

   当四名男子被拒绝保释时就突然发生了骚乱。

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   • The people gathered round then debated what ‘damages’ she would have to pay to the community for having caused a disturbance of the peace.
   • Allegations that her comments caused a disturbance at Bradford Magistrates Court between white and Asian youths proved to be unfounded.
   • According to Bulgarian border police, the group had caused a disturbance of the peace and were not fit to enter the country.
   • Both men were charged with causing an unlawful disturbance.
   • The state defines unlawful assembly as a threat of ‘tumultuous disturbance of the peace.’
   • It argued that, in the absence of the pricing rules, there would be civil disturbances, blockades, and violence.
   • Charges vary, including unlawful assembly, causing a disturbance, and assaulting and obstructing a police officer.
   • A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal following a disturbance in the Ferry Inn, Stromness, on Wednesday afternoon.
   • In addition, with the more amorphously defined ‘public order’ offences, criteria of what constitutes a disturbance are situationally variable.
   • Four Italian football fans were fined by magistrates after a violent disturbance at Stansted Airport.
   • Others said police statistics would never reflect the real amount of disturbance because residents did not report everything.
   • Further, an unjustifiable disturbance in family life by an arbitrary separation of child and parents would engage Article 8.
   • In such environments, the legal price that can be exacted for protest increases commensurate with the disturbance and threat that protest produces.
   • The militia, it seems, managed to quell the disturbance without too much difficulty.
   • The villagers captured one of the hired gunmen and dragged him off to the police station only to be arrested for causing a disturbance.
   • The applicants were involved in a protest which had led to a violent disturbance.
   • After all, we have been accused of causing a public disturbance, disrupting the peace.
   • Police detained them for causing a disturbance, although officers took their petition and passed it on.
   • Security firms do not have the legal power to deal with disturbances, they cannot physically arrest someone.
   • A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said they were called to the disturbance and when they arrived a number of people had already left.

   Synonyms

   riot, fracas, affray, upheaval, brawl, street fight, melee, free-for-all
2. 1.2 The disruption of healthy functioning.
   （健康机能的）失调，紊乱
   her severe mental disturbance was diagnosed as schizophrenia

   她严重的精神紊乱被诊断为精神分裂症。

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   • The installation of this phone booth is definitely creating physical danger and mental disturbance to local as well as visiting pedestrians.
   • Those children lucky enough to survive the disease may have persistent mental or neurological disturbances.
   • But physical disturbances from outside the embryo can have the same effect.
   • At times the disturbance was so severe as to bring him to the edge of madness.
   • Their personal problems and mental disturbances did not disturb brisk activities.
   • A diagnosis is usually made based on the description of the mental disturbance, risk factors and family history.
   • The second group consisted of a man and a woman whose disturbances placed them at physical risk.
   • This can cause ammonia accumulation due to a disturbance in mitochondrial function in the liver that inhibits the urea cycle.
   • Other reports have cited severe and uncontrollable pain or bleeding, major injury with shock, impending birth, and uncontrollable mental disturbance.
   • Sleep disturbance, seasonal affective disorders and the nocturnal polyuria of diabetes are related to abnormal biorhythm.
   • Some patients may become unable to breathe sufficiently after severe infection or other disturbance of lung function.
   • Psychiatrists have a social role in controlling mental disturbance through the Mental Health Act.
   • Emotions were simply physiological disturbances that could become attached over time to a wide range of different stimuli.
   • Out of the love for her work, Ye Sha adheres to the night shift, regardless of the disturbance from her chronic headache.
   • The basic abnormality is a disturbance in normal function in the smooth-muscled part of the esophagus.
   • The assumption is that, well these people had a mental disturbance or mental illness, that's why they did what they did.
   • Did you ever see any sign of a mental disturbance with him?
   • Their skin also becomes discoloured and their personality becomes morbid due to the mental disturbance that accompanies the condition.
   • This is due to a disturbance of immune function resulting in the body not recognising its own tissue as its own and hence leading to reactions against it.
   • Some affected people suffer mental disturbances such as delirium, hallucinations, and even psychotic behaviour.

   Synonyms

   trouble, perturbation, distress, concern, worry, upset
3. 1.3Meteorology A local variation from normal or average wind conditions, usually a small tornado or cyclone.
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   • They also said the radar may have been disrupted by disturbances in the atmosphere.
   • After wind disturbance, managed forests are generally salvaged to minimize economic losses.
   • It can also test in a tandem mode to detect wind disturbance induced by one car following another.
   • That disturbance in the winds, in turn, affects the ocean surface, roughing it up in some places and smoothing it in others.
   • The strong brightening of the aurora on 28 January corresponded with the recent arrival of a large disturbance in the solar wind.
4. 1.4Law Interference with rights or property; molestation.
   〔律〕（对权利或财产的）侵犯；妨害
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   • Twelve Britons are due to appear in court later today after being arrested for public order offences following yesterday's disturbance.
   • Such construction would minimise property disturbance whilst complying with the topography of the terrain.
   • Authorities charged them both with trespassing, peace disturbance, and resisting arrest.
   • Compensation can also be claimed in respect of damage to the remaining property and disturbance.
   • Police said the allegations against the nine Britons still held, ranged from bodily injury to robbery or disturbance of public order.