addled
美['?dld]
- adj. 頭腦混亂的；腐壞的
- v. 變質(zhì)，變混論（addle的過去分詞）
英文詞源
- addled
- addled: [13] Addled may be traceable back ultimately to a confusion between ‘wind’ and ‘urine’ in Latin. In Middle English the term was adel eye ‘a(chǎn)ddled egg’. of which the first part derived from Old English adela ‘foul-smelling urine or liquid manure’. It seems possible that this may be a loan-translation of the Latin term for ‘a(chǎn)ddled egg’, ōvum ūrīnae, literally ‘urine egg’. This in turn was an alteration, by folk etymology, of ōvum ūrīnum, a partial loantranslation of Greek oúrion ōón, literally ‘wind egg’ (a wind egg is an imperfect or addled egg).
雙語例句
- 1. You're talking like an addled romantic.
- 你說話像個(gè)糊里糊涂耽于幻想的人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. She wore a sweet and slightly addled expression.
- 她一臉小迷糊的可愛樣兒。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Being in love must have addled your brain.
- 墜入愛河必已使你神魂顛倒。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.
- 他整天讀書寫字,頭都昏了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Not one of these eggs ever addled.
- 這些蛋沒有一個(gè)壞的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》