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Slur Speech Middle Clearly(清楚地发音 C.1600 Sense Meaning Slə

单词 slur
音标 [slə:]
解释 v.含糊不清地讲
红宝书 【英】 v.含糊不清地讲(to slide over without due emphasis)
【考】 slur : speech / smudge : writing(含糊讲话/模糊作品)反义词:pronounce clearly(清楚地发音)
【记】 和blur(弄脏,变模糊 )一起记
【例】 Her speech slurred slightly from dinner wine.(她因喝酒,说话 有点含糊不清)
字源 slur (n.)
"deliberate slight, disparaging or slighting remark," c.1600, from dialectal slur "thin or fluid mud," from Middle English slore (mid-15c.), cognate with Middle Low German sluren, Middle Dutch sloren "to trail in mud." Related to East Frisian sluren "to go about carelessly," Norwegian slora "to be careless." Literal sense of "a mark, stain, smear" is from 1660s in English. The musical sense (1746) is from the notion of "sliding." Meaning "act or habit of slurring" in speech is from 1882.
slur (v.)
c.1600, "smear, soil by smearing," from slur (n.). Meaning "disparage depreciate" is from 1650s. In music, from 1746; of speech, from 1893. Related: Slurred; slurring.
不择手段背单词 v. /n. 含糊不清地讲; 草率的处理
【记】有lur的都有模糊的意思, blur(v 使模糊)
【类】slur: speech = smudge: writing含糊的讲话 = 模糊的字迹
【反】pronounce clearly(清楚地发音)
趣味全助记 【记】slip + obscure;blur 涂污, 污损(名誉),污点;音:嗍罗,嘴里吮吸时发出的含糊发音
【相关】failure 失败

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