| 单词 | garbled |
| 释义 | garbled (once / 10629 pages) adj A garbled message makes no sense. If you get a bad phone connection, your friend's message might sound garbled. Or, if you have rewritten the same sentence numerous times, its message might also be garbled. When you were young you may have played the game telephone, where one student thinks up a line, whispers it to his neighbor, who whispers it to his neighbor, and so on, down the line. At the end, the last person to receive the message shouts it out; it usually has nothing to do with what the first person said: it has been garbled along the way. Most of the change is accidental, the price of being human and imperfect — you hear "dope" rather than "hope." Besides messages, facts can get garbled — remember the history test where you wrote 1960 instead of 1860? 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) adj lacking orderly continuity Syn confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, unconnected incoherent without logical or meaningful connection |
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