解释
- vt. 使腐坏；使混乱
- vi. 变质；变混乱
- adj. 腐坏的；糊涂的，昏乱的
※ 提供单词"addle"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
addle 使糊涂
来自古英语词。
英文词源
- addle (v.)
- 1712, from addle (n.) "urine, liquid filth," from Old English adela "mud, mire, liquid manure" (cognate with Old Swedish adel "urine," Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal "puddle").
Used in noun phrase addle egg (mid-13c.) "egg that does not hatch, rotten egg," literally "urine egg," a loan-translation of Latin ovum urinum, which is itself an erroneous loan-translation of Greek ourion oon "putrid egg," literally "wind egg," from ourios "of the wind" (confused by Roman writers with ourios "of urine," from ouron "urine"). Because of this usage, from c. 1600 the noun in English was taken as an adjective meaning "putrid," and thence given a figurative extension to "empty, vain, idle," also "confused, muddled, unsound" (1706). The verb followed a like course. Related: Addled; addling.
例句和用法
- 1. The object is to addle and not to elucidate.
- 其目的是为了混淆而不是为了阐明.
- 2. Eggs addle quickly in hot weather.
- 蛋在热天易坏.
- 3. The manager busied himself all day and got addle brained.
- 这位经理整天忙得昏头昏脑.
- 4. Why lying to see a book you can make eye addle?
- 躺着看书为什么会使眼睛变坏?
- 5. He is quite forgetful, and called an addle head by others.
- 他整天忘这忘那, 大家都叫他糊涂虫.
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