addle

• vt. 使腐坏；使混乱
• vi. 变质；变混乱
• adj. 腐坏的；糊涂的，昏乱的

来自古英语词。

1. mix up or confuse;

"He muddled the issues"

2. become rotten;

"addled eggs"

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.

Being in love must have addled your brain.

坠入爱河必已使你神魂颠倒。

牛津词典

I suppose the shock had addled his poor old brain.

我估摸这个打击已经把他那可怜的脑袋瓜搞糊涂了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The manager busied himself all day and got addle brained.

这位经理整天忙得昏头昏脑.

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Why lying to see a book you can make eye addle?

躺着看书为什么会使眼睛变坏?

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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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The feminine disposition addle that is pregnant?

是不是怀孕的女人脾气变坏了?

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We are the offspring of addle fluid ; love, however the crystal of poison.

我们由浊液产生, 但爱却像毒品一般纯净.

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Eggs addle quickly in hot weather.

蛋在热天易坏.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

I wish him an ounce more wit in his addle head.

我希望他的笨脑袋再多一点才智.

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We could be addle a man, but we couldn't be bewildered to go into the grave.

我们可以糊里糊涂的来, 不可以糊里糊涂的去.

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On the face because give fabaceous beans addle can you go hairdressing?

脸上因为出豆豆变坏了可以去美容 吗 ?

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The object is to addle and not to elucidate.

其目的是为了混淆而不是为了阐明.

《简明英汉词典》

She went on playing first addle in the band.

她继续在乐队中作第一小提琴手.

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