muddle
muddle 英 [ˈmʌdl] 美 [ˈmʌdl]
vt. 混合；使咬字不清晰；使微醉 n. 糊涂；困惑；混浊状态 vi. 胡乱思考；糊里糊涂地行事
进行时:muddling 过去式:muddled 过去分词:muddled 第三人称单数:muddles 名词复数:muddles
- A muddle is something that's messy and confusing. If your bedroom looks like a hurricane just hit it, you might describe it as a muddle.
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- vt. 混合；使咬字不清晰；使微醉
- n. 糊涂；困惑；混浊状态
- vi. 胡乱思考；糊里糊涂地行事
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1. You'd better not muddle me about, but tell me the truth.
你最好别把我弄得糊里糊涂，而是把实情告诉我。
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2. He engaged in religious debate with friends but confessed to being in a hopeless “muddle”.
他和他的朋友讨论宗教的问题并且坦诚自己是一个绝望的“糊涂虫”。
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3. People with plans generally do better than those who just muddle along.
有计划的人通常来说比那些糊里糊涂混日子的人做得好。
- muddle (n.) 1818, from muddle (v.).
- muddle (v.) 1590s, "destroy the clarity of" (a transferred sense); literal sense ("to bathe in mud") is from c. 1600; perhaps frequentative formation from mud, or from Dutch moddelen "to make (water) muddy," from the same Proto-Germanic source. Sense of "to make muddy" is from 1670s; that of "make confused" first recorded 1680s. Meaning "to bungle" is from 1885. Related: Muddled; muddling.
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