muddle
英 ['mʌd(ə)l]
美 ['mʌdl]
- vt. 混合；使咬字不清晰；使微醉
- n. 糊塗；困惑；混濁狀態
- vi. 胡亂思考；糊裏糊塗地行事
助記提示
1. perhaps frequentative formation from mud.
中文詞源
muddle 攪混來自mud,泥漿，-le,表反複。引申詞義攪混，使困惑，雜亂。
英文詞源
- muddle (v.)
- 1590s, "destroy the clarity of" (a transferred sense); literal sense ("to bathe in mud") is from c. 1600; perhaps frequentative formation from mud, or from Dutch moddelen "to make (water) muddy," from the same Proto-Germanic source. Sense of "to make muddy" is from 1670s; that of "make confused" first recorded 1680s. Meaning "to bungle" is from 1885. Related: Muddled; muddling.
- muddle (n.)
- 1818, from muddle (v.).
雙語例句
- 1. We will muddle through and just play it day by day.
- 我們會應付過關的，就一天一天地演吧。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. We are beginning to muddle the extended royal family and the monarchy.
- 我們開始混淆皇室大家庭和君主製這兩個概念了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The laws led to confusion, muddle and years of delay.
- 這些法律導致了困惑、混亂和數年的耽擱。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names.
- 一兩個評論家已經開始把這兩個名字弄混了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. I've arranged the books alphabetically so don't muddle them up.
- 我已按字母順序把這些書整理了,千萬不要再弄亂.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》