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1. perhaps frequentative formation from mud.
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词族 · muddle
中文词源
muddle 搅混
来自mud,泥浆，-le,表反复。引申词义搅混，使困惑，杂乱。
英语词源
- 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.
- muddle (n.)
- 1818, from muddle (v.).
权威例句
- 1. We will muddle through and just play it day by day.
- 我们会应付过关的，就一天一天地演吧。
- 2. We are beginning to muddle the extended royal family and the monarchy.
- 我们开始混淆皇室大家庭和君主制这两个概念了。
- 3. The laws led to confusion, muddle and years of delay.
- 这些法律导致了困惑、混乱和数年的耽搁。
- 4. Already, one or two critics have begun to muddle the two names.
- 一两个评论家已经开始把这两个名字弄混了。
- 5. I've arranged the books alphabetically so don't muddle them up.
- 我已按字母顺序把这些书整理了,千万不要再弄乱.