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单词 shuffle
释义 shuf·fle
I. \ˈshəfəl\ verb
(shuffled ; shuffled ; shuffling \-f(ə)liŋ\ ; shuffles)
Etymology: perhaps irregular from shove (I) + -le
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to mix in a mass confusedly : throw into disorder : jumble
  < war has … shuffled our population — Lucien Price >
 b. : to cause to mingle indiscriminately — usually used with among or with
  < shuffled first offenders in with hardened criminals >
2.
 a. : to introduce into trickily : smuggle in
  < contrived by your enemies and shuffled into the papers that were seized — John Dryden >
 b. : to put or thrust aside or under cover
  < shuffled the whole matter out of his mind >
  < shuffling the letter out of sight as someone entered >
3.
 a. : to manipulate (as a group of playing cards or tiles) with the real or ostensible purpose of causing a later appearance in random order (as in dealing or drawing)
 b. : to push or move about, back and forth, or from one place to another : shift
  < shuffle funds among various accounts >
  < pulled all the drawers open to shuffle his belongings more handily — Josephine Pinckney >
  < dispatchers had godlike … power to shuffle us to and fro — Christopher Morley >
4.
 a. : to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting
  < shuffled his feet nervously as he waited >
  < shuffled his slippers over the floor >
 b. : to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step
  < shuffle a saraband >
intransitive verb
1. : to work into or out of trickily : worm — usually used with in, into, or out of
 < managed to shuffle in with his betters >
 < shuffled out of the difficulty somehow >
2. : to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner : equivocate
 < the more the cardinals shuffled, the more furiously the mob raged — G.G.Coulton >
 < without shuffling for a moment about his past errors — J.M.Barzun >
3.
 a. : to move or walk in a sliding, dragging manner without lifting the feet : scuff, scuffle
  < saw a bear shuffling along >
  < boxers shuffling around in the ring >
  < saw him shuffling through the streets in his battered carpet slippers — Van Wyck Brooks >
 b. : to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet
 c. : to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner — usually used with through
  < allowed to shuffle through his lessons — George Eliot >
 d. : to get into or out of shoes or clothing awkwardly or fumblingly — usually used with into, off, on, or out of
  < began to shuffle on his fur jacket and his moccasins — Willa Cather >
  < watched him shuffle gloomily into his overcoat — William DuBois >
4. : to mix playing cards or counters (as dominoes or tiles) by shuffling
5. : to attack with the spurs in cock fighting
II. noun
(-s)
1. : an evasion of the issue : equivocation
 < answer it now, yes or no, plain word and no shuffle — Max Pemberton >
2.
 a. : an act of shuffling (as of cards or playing counters)
  < after the shuffle the players select tiles in turn >
 b. : a right or turn to shuffle
  < reminded sharply that it was his shuffle >
 c. : a confused mass : jumble
  < a desk with a shuffle of papers on it — Adrian Bell >
  < the goal of training good teachers had been lost in the shuffle of educational trappings — Benjamin Fine >
3.
 a. : a dragging sliding walk : scuffle
  < the … shuffle of the man's feet across the dusty floor — Victor Canning >
 b.
  (1) : a sliding or scraping step in dancing
  (2) : a dance characterized by such a step
   < dancing a sailor's shuffle >
   < the double shuffle >
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