The chaos started when a few impatient devotees started to push through the crowd of 200,000 Hindu worshippers who were making their way uphill to the Mandhara Devi shrine on a holy day, witnesses said.

　　As dozens of people were crushed, others became angry and set fire to shops along the road, witnesses said.

　　Fires spread along the route, causing gas cylinders used to cook food for the pilgrims to explode in the main square of the temple complex, they said.

　　Stampede意为“惊跑，狂奔，蜂拥”，源于西班牙语estampida（爆炸，巨响，击碎，吼叫），比较适合形容野牛、马群的惊跑。
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后来美国目睹了成千上万向西淘金的人群，stampede就被用来形容大批人群蜂拥而至了。例如：There was a stampede of panic-stricken crowd from the burning hotel.（一群惊惶失措的人们从失火的旅馆中跑了出来。）此外，Stampede还有“（在选举中）突然一面倒；抢购风潮；一年一次的庆祝会”等含义，例如：a stampede of support for the candidate（纷纷支持那个侯选人）。

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