| 单词 | garble |
| 释义 | garble (once / 8330 pages) v When you garble something, you warp or distort it, making it hard to understand. Talking with marbles in your mouth is one sure way of garbling your speech. When garble first emerged on the scene in the early 15th century, it meant "to sift" or "sort through." So imagine a sentence so scrambled that you have to sort through each word, trying to figure out what everything means. Garbling can happen by accident, like when your radio signal is bad and the songs get all distorted. But spies often jumble up their secret messages on purpose to protect them from prying eyes and ears. WORD FAMILYgarble: garbled, garbles, garbling USAGE EXAMPLESFirst, the researchers played a very distorted, garbled sentence to each subject, which almost no-one was able to understand. BBC(Dec 20, 2016) The official explanation for this delay was a bit garbled. The New Yorker(Dec 13, 2016) But once the rocket’s third stage began firing, radio transmissions became garbled, leaving the fate of the Progress capsule unclear. Reuters(Dec 01, 2016) v make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story Syn|Hypo|Hyper distort, falsify, warp mangle, murder, mutilate alter so as to make unrecognizable belie, misrepresent represent falsely |
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