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Muddle Frequentative Formation Sense Make 19979.Muddle 英 Mʌd(ə)L]美

正面 19979.muddle
英 ['mʌd(ə)l]美 ['mʌdl]

背面
释义:
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
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。

1. perhaps frequentative formation from mud.
muddle 搅混来自mud,泥浆,-le,表反复。引申词义搅混,使困惑,杂乱。
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.)."

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