英语词汇“to muddle over”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. transitive. To mar the clearness or sharpness of (colours); to mix (colours) together (also in); also figurative. †to muddle over: to variegate, mottle (obsolete).In quot. 1596 the verbs seem to be comic alterations of Dutch terms of painting; but the passage is obscure.

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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (transitive)] > make impure or unclear

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > mark with patches [verb (transitive)] > mottle

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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F4 I haue..ouzled, gidumbled, muddled, and drizled it [sc. the ‘picture’ of Gabriel Harvey] so finely, that [etc.].

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Mark ii. 12) He cares not to gild gold, or muddle over a topaz.

1687 C. Sedley Bellamira v. i, in Wks. (1778) II. 178 This drinking does so muddle one's complexion and take off one's mettle.

a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) iv. 142 Colours..little muddled by vehicles, and subsequent attempts to mend the first touches.

1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 259 The transparent freshness of water-color drawings, when the washes are not muddled.

1976 D. Francis In Frame xiv. 203 And you get grey..by muddling together red, white and blue.

1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 37 The premature gray and show-me squint of these Yankees is muddled in with their something eternally puerile, awkward, winning, and hopeful.

单词	to muddle over
释义	> as lemmas to muddle over 4. transitive. To mar the clearness or sharpness of (colours); to mix (colours) together (also in); also figurative. †to muddle over: to variegate, mottle (obsolete).In quot. 1596 the verbs seem to be comic alterations of Dutch terms of painting; but the passage is obscure. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (transitive)] > make impure or unclear muddle1596 muddy1811 the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > mark with patches [verb (transitive)] > mottle to muddle over1596 mottle1602 spattle1611 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F4 I haue..ouzled, gidumbled, muddled, and drizled it [sc. the ‘picture’ of Gabriel Harvey] so finely, that [etc.]. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Mark ii. 12) He cares not to gild gold, or muddle over a topaz. 1687 C. Sedley Bellamira v. i, in Wks. (1778) II. 178 This drinking does so muddle one's complexion and take off one's mettle. a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) iv. 142 Colours..little muddled by vehicles, and subsequent attempts to mend the first touches. 1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 259 The transparent freshness of water-color drawings, when the washes are not muddled. 1976 D. Francis In Frame xiv. 203 And you get grey..by muddling together red, white and blue. 1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 37 The premature gray and show-me squint of these Yankees is muddled in with their something eternally puerile, awkward, winning, and hopeful. extracted from muddlev. < as lemmas
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