muddle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈmʌdl̩/
美 /ˈmʌd(ə)l/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
— The muddle of nervous speech he uttered did not have much meaning.
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A servant's attendant; underservant.
— We bought a few rugs and odds and ends and our sitting room looks quite European; then we have a bedroom with 2 beds and a dressing room, also a corridor for the muddles and servants.
- A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler.
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A muddy mess.
— I must drive as quick with a thunder-rain pelting in my face, and the roads in a muddle, and the horses starting—I can’t call it shying, I have ’em too well in hand,—at every flash, just as quick as if it was a fine hard road, and fine weather.
动词 v.
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To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.
— Young children tend to muddle their words.
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To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
— He muddled the mint sprigs in the bottom of the glass.
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To dabble in mud.
— c. 1721-1722, Jonathan Swift, The Progress of Marriage Young ducklings foster'd by a hen; But, when let out, they run and muddle
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To make turbid or muddy.
— He did ill to Muddle the Water.
- To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
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To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
— Their old master Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded with them, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.
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To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
— They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English modelen (attested in present participle modeland (“wallowing”)), from Middle Dutch moddelen (“to make muddy”), from modde, mod (“mud”) (Modern Dutch modder). By surface analysis, mud + -le. Compare German Kuddelmuddel.
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