addle

• vt. 使腐壞；使混亂
• vi. 變質；變混亂
• adj. 腐壞的；糊塗的，昏亂的

來自古英語詞。

addle (v.)

1712, from addle (n.) "urine, liquid filth," from Old English adela "mud, mire, liquid manure" (cognate with Old Swedish adel "urine," Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal "puddle").

Used in noun phrase addle egg (mid-13c.) "egg that does not hatch, rotten egg," literally "urine egg," a loan-translation of Latin ovum urinum, which is itself an erroneous loan-translation of Greek ourion oon "putrid egg," literally "wind egg," from ourios "of the wind" (confused by Roman writers with ourios "of urine," from ouron "urine"). Because of this usage, from c. 1600 the noun in English was taken as an adjective meaning "putrid," and thence given a figurative extension to "empty, vain, idle," also "confused, muddled, unsound" (1706). The verb followed a like course. Related: Addled; addling.

1. The object is to addle and not to elucidate.

其目的是為了混淆而不是為了闡明.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Eggs addle quickly in hot weather.

蛋在熱天易壞.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

3. The manager busied himself all day and got addle brained.

這位經理整天忙得昏頭昏腦.

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4. Why lying to see a book you can make eye addle?

躺著看書為什麽會使眼睛變壞?

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5. He is quite forgetful, and called an addle head by others.

他整天忘這忘那, 大家都叫他糊塗蟲.

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