词汇 | garble |
释义 | garble verb[ T ] uk /ˈɡɑː.bəl/ us /ˈɡɑːr.bəl/ to make words or messages unclear and difficult to understand: 让(话或信息)变得含混不清,易引起误解 It's bad when phones garble conversations.电话让对话含混不清,这样很糟糕。 Difficult to understand abstruse abstrusely ambiguity ambiguous ambiguously esoteric esoterically fathomless fathomlessly get it into your thick headidiom labyrinthine lost non-intuitive obscurely obscurity unreadable verbiage verbosely verbosity wasted on someoneidiom Examples of garblegarble His thin voice, garbled grammar, and syntactical errors are the badge of 'plain speak'. Unfortunately the work suffers throughout from poor editing : inaccuracies, redundancies, and garbled syntax all abound, as do typographical errors. True, the information they convey may be garbled; various members of the same party may display serious policy disagreements. Because the chant was transmitted individually rather than as part of a formulaic genre, it was not well remembered and became garbled. A person will almost always1 interpret, however garbled the syntax and grammar. There is nothing about garbling the text, mismatched words and music, violation of metre, or the need to learn the song by heart. When such elementary facts are garbled, the reliability of the more esoteric data on which the study turns must immediately become questionable. The majority, driven by superstition, prejudice, passions and dark instincts, either persecuted them or garbled their teachings. Affected individuals tend to garble pronunciation, put words in the wrong order, and have trouble comprehending grammar and speech sounds, including sentences. Viewed in this way, they seem to be both a distinctive amalgam of many general late nineteenth-century preoccupations and a partly garbled version of a more up-to-date aesthetic viewpoint. How did the message become garbled? Facts get badly garbled in places. A mindless scribe may occasionally have garbled a syntactical construction, but it is inconceivable that he should have committed the lexical and idiomatic solecisms that pervade the text. Unfortunately, that part of my speech got completely garbled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those stories are going round the country; they are being garbled, and the whole country is being fed on a mass of very unpleasant rumour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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