| 单词 | muddle |
| 释义 | mud·dle I. transitive verb 1. < the transparent freshness of watercolor drawings when the washes are not muddled — E.V.Neale > 2. < muddled the brook with his splashings > 3. < the drink muddled him and his voice became loud and domineering > 4. < the unforgivable sin in a pupil is not ungrammatical speech but muddled speech — George Sampson > 5. < muddle away a fortune > < muddle away the hours until train time > 6. < two worlds of discourse become muddled together in the same language and become nonsense — F.S.C.Northrop > 7. < muddled themselves into the most indefensible positions — A.N.Whitehead > < too much is at stake in government for them to be permitted to muddle policies — V.L.Parrington > 8. of mixed drinks intransitive verb 1. a. < cats and dogs muddling round a fire — E.M.Forster > b. archaic 2. < the story … is one of muddling and halfheartedness — R.C.K.Ensor > < muddle around a house for a week — Peggy Durdin > < let her muddle along thinking she is getting ready — Marcia Davenport > II. 1. a. < the muddle in the argument — John Holloway > < surrounded by a vast muddle of hearsay — Janet Flanner > b. < dislike of the muddle and the misdirection of our institutions — Times Literary Supplement > < the world's been confused and poor, a thorough muddle — H.G.Wells > < saw what faulty coordination and general muddle can do to an army — G.A.Craig > c. < I'll move these newspapers, excuse the muddle — Janet Frame > < a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance, a muddle of gables and projections — S.P.B.Mais > < the shelves in ascending degrees of muddle covered the wall — John Updike > 2. a. b. Synonyms: see confusion |
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