muddle
verb /ˈmʌdl/
/ˈmʌdl/
(especially British English)动词形式
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they muddle | /ˈmʌdl/ /ˈmʌdl/ |
| he / she / it muddles | /ˈmʌdlz/ /ˈmʌdlz/ |
| past simple muddled | /ˈmʌdld/ /ˈmʌdld/ |
| past participle muddled | /ˈmʌdld/ /ˈmʌdld/ |
| -ing form muddling | /ˈmʌdlɪŋ/ /ˈmʌdlɪŋ/ |
- to put things in the wrong order or mix them up
弄乱；搅混 - muddle something Don't do that—you're muddling my papers.
别动，你会弄乱我的文件的。 - muddle something up Their letters were all muddled up together in a drawer.
他们的信都乱七八糟地放在一个抽屉里。 - All the cups and saucers have been muddled up.
所有的杯子和碟子都被弄乱了。
- muddle something Don't do that—you're muddling my papers.
- muddle somebody (up) to confuse somebody
使困惑；使糊涂 - Slow down a little—you're muddling me.
说慢点儿，你都把我搞糊涂了。
- Slow down a little—you're muddling me.
- muddle somebody/something (up) | muddle A (up) with B to confuse one person or thing with another
混淆；搅混；分不清 - I muddled the dates and arrived a week early.
我搞错了日期，早到了一个星期。 - He got all muddled up about what went where.
他对什么东西放在哪里全然记不清了。 - They look so alike, I always get them muddled up.
他们看上去那么像，我总是把他们给搞混了。
- I muddled the dates and arrived a week early.
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘wallow in mud’): perhaps from Middle Dutch moddelen, frequentative of modden ‘dabble in mud’; compare with mud. The sense ‘confuse’ was initially associated with alcoholic drink (late 17th cent.), giving rise to ‘busy oneself in a confused way’ and ‘jumble up’ (mid 19th cent.).