Ba·bel /ˈbebəl, ˈbæ-/
 巴別塔


 Ba·bel n.
 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
    Therefore is the name of it called Babel.   --Gen. xi. 9.
 2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
    That babel of strange heathen languages.   --Hammond.
    The grinding babel of the street.   --R. L. Stevenson.

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 babel
      n 1: a confusion of voices and other sounds
      2: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants
         (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to
         heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so
         they could no longer understand one another [syn: {Tower
         of Babel]


 Babel, confusion; mixture