英语词源
- addled
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addled: [13] Addled may be traceable back ultimately to a confusion between ‘wind’ and ‘urine’ in Latin. In Middle English the term was adel eye ‘addled egg’. of which the first part derived from Old English adela ‘foul-smelling urine or liquid manure’. It seems possible that this may be a loan-translation of the Latin term for ‘addled egg’, ōvum ūrīnae, literally ‘urine egg’. This in turn was an alteration, by folk etymology, of ōvum ūrīnum, a partial loantranslation of Greek oúrion ōón, literally ‘wind egg’ (a wind egg is an imperfect or addled egg).
权威例句
- 1. You're talking like an addled romantic.
- 你说话像个糊里糊涂耽于幻想的人。
- 2. She wore a sweet and slightly addled expression.
- 她一脸小迷糊的可爱样儿。
- 3. Being in love must have addled your brain.
- 坠入爱河必已使你神魂颠倒。
- 4. He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.
- 他整天读书写字,头都昏了.
- 5. Not one of these eggs ever addled.
- 这些蛋没有一个坏的.