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单词 garble
释义 garble
 —garbleable,  adj.   —garbler,  n.  
 /gahr"beuhl/,  v.  , garbled, garbling,  n.  
  v.t.  
  1. to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
  2. to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation.
  3.  Archaic.   to take out the best of.
  n.  
  4. the act or process of garbling.
  5. an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc.
 [1400-50; late ME garbelen to remove refuse from spices < OIt garbellare to sift < Ar gharbala < LL cribellare, deriv. of cribellum, dim. of L cribrum sieve (see -ELLE); prob. influenced by GARBOIL]
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