| 单词 | shuffle |
| 释义 | shuffle (once / 658 pages) 1vn 2vn To shuffle is to drag your feet slowly along the ground as you walk. A kid might shuffle reluctantly off to his room only after being told five times that it's bedtime. Shuffle also means to wiggle around, like if you shuffle uncomfortably in your seat while watching a five-hour movie. If you get lost in the shuffle, you’re lost in the crowd. Another way to use shuffle is to mean "mix up in a random way," as you do with a deck of cards before dealing a hand. Shuffle probably comes from the Low German word schuffeln, which means both "to walk clumsily" and "to deal dishonestly." WORD FAMILYshuffle: reshuffle, shuffled, shuffler, shuffles, shuffling+/reshuffle: reshuffled, reshuffles, reshuffling/reshuffling: reshufflings/shuffler: shufflers/shuffling: shufflings USAGE EXAMPLESThe majority of the issues that shuffled off their mortal coil were some combination of uninspired, unloved, unlucky and unfortunate, and deserved their fate. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) What if it’s so mysterious that it gets lost in the peak content shuffle? The Guardian(Dec 16, 2016) When you shuffle across a carpeted floor in your stockinged feet, your body is collecting or shedding electrons and building up a charge, Hazen explains. Time(Dec 15, 2016) 1 1v walk by dragging one's feet he shuffled out of the room We heard his feet shuffling down the hall Syn|Hypo|Hyper scuffle, shamble drag, scuff walk without lifting the feet walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 2n walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet Syn|Hyper shamble, shambling, shuffling walk, walking the act of traveling by foot 3v move about, move back and forth 2He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS Hyper shift, transfer move around 1v mix so as to make a random order or arrangement shuffle the cards Syn|Hypo|Hyper mix, ruffle reshuffle shuffle again riffleshuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix cutdivide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult manipulate hold something in one's hands and move it 2n the act of mixing cards haphazardly Syn|Hypo|Hyper make, shuffling reshuffle, reshuffling shuffling again riffleshuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners reordering a rearrangement in a different order |
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