muddle
音标：
英音/ ˈmʌd(ə)l / 美音/ ˈmʌd(ə)l /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Then, the holding of those middle justices would carry the day – and also create a muddle for lower courts.
然后，这些中级法官的关押将会取得胜利，同时也会给下级法院带来混乱。
—BBC
Still, it is becoming more challenging to sustain the belief that South Africa – this charming, troubled, rainbow nation – will simply continue to muddle, endlessly, through.
尽管如此，要坚持这样的信念正变得越来越具有挑战性：南非这个迷人的、陷入困境的彩虹国家将继续无休止地蒙混过关。
—BBC
Then the Dutch got themselves into a desperate muddle at the back.
随后荷兰队在后场陷入了绝望的混乱。
—BBC
基本释意：
verb
make into a puddle
把……弄乱，把……混在一起；混淆，分不清；使困惑；懵懵懂懂地白忙；<美>调制（饮料），调（酒）；使糊涂，使迷惑
同义词：
puddle,addle,puddle,clutter,fuddle,jumble,mare’s nest,smother,welter,fix,hole,jam,kettle of fish,mess,pickle
短释义：
Oftentimes, we create the muddles in our lives, so it’s appropriate that muddle can be used as a verb meaning “to mix up” or “confuse.” Conveniently, though, the word muddle also describes a way out of difficult situations; to muddle through a troublesome task is to somehow figure it out, even if you don’t quite know what you’re doing. It has been suggested that muddle comes from an old Dutch word meaning “to make muddy.”
混乱是指混乱且令人困惑的事情。如果你的卧室看起来像一场飓风刚刚袭来，你可能会把它描述为一片混乱。
长释义：
Oftentimes, we create the muddles in our lives, so it’s appropriate that muddle can be used as a verb meaning “to mix up” or “confuse.” Conveniently, though, the word muddle also describes a way out of difficult situations; to muddle through a troublesome task is to somehow figure it out, even if you don’t quite know what you’re doing. It has been suggested that muddle comes from an old Dutch word meaning “to make muddy.”
我们常常在生活中制造混乱，因此，middle 可以用作动词，意思是“混合”或“混淆”。不过，方便的是，“混乱”这个词也描述了摆脱困境的方法。应付一项麻烦的任务就是以某种方式解决它，即使你不太知道自己在做什么。有人认为，“muddle”一词源自一个古老的荷兰语单词，意思是“使浑浊”。
文学例句：
With the final ounce of strength she had, her mind already muddled from the cold, her fingers numb, Seven pulled the ceramic bird from her cloak pocket, brought it to her mouth, and blew.
小七用最后一分力气，脑子已经冻得昏昏沉沉，手指也麻木了，她从斗篷口袋里掏出陶瓷鸟，放到嘴边吹了吹。
—Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega
Ajay would head to the secondary school on a nearby island and keep muddling along for a few more years of schooling.
阿贾伊会前往附近岛屿上的中学，继续混日子，继续上几年学。
—Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins
To Celia’s ears, the sounds no longer resolve into words, and she frowns as her father’s responses take on the same muddled quality.
在西莉亚的耳中，这些声音不再解析为言语，当她父亲的反应呈现出同样混乱的质量时，她皱起了眉头。
—The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
词源：
muddle (v.)1590s, “destroy the clarity of” (a transferred sense); literal sense (“to bathe in mud”) is from c. 1600; perhaps frequentative formation from mud, or from Dutch moddelen “to make (water) muddy,” from the same Proto-Germanic source. Sense of “to make muddy” is from 1670s; that of “make confused, bewilder” is recorded by 1680s. Meaning “to bungle” is from 1885. Related: Muddled; muddling.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
muddle (v.)1590s，“破坏清晰度”（转移的意义）；字面意义（“在泥土中沐浴”）来自c。 1600；也许是由泥土频繁形成的，或者来自荷兰语 moddelen“使（水）变得浑浊”，来自相同的原始日耳曼语源。 “使泥泞”的含义来自1670年代； “使混乱，迷惑”的记录是在1680年代。 “搞砸”的意思源自 1885 年。糊涂。相关条目及更多
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