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词汇 muddle
释义 muddle
noun[ S or U ]
uk /ˈmʌd.əl/ us /ˈmʌd.əl/
C2
an untidy or confused state: 混乱状态;糟糕局面
The documents were in a muddle.文件杂乱地堆在一起。
Whenever I go to Europe I get in a muddle about/over(= become confused about) how much things cost.我每次去欧洲,总是把钱弄得乱糟糟的搞不清。
Synonym
fuddleinformal
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muddle | American Dictionary


muddle
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmʌd·əl/
a messy and confused state:
Her life was in a muddle.

Examples of muddle


muddle
Other critics have been as hopelessly muddled about this as they have been about the distinction between voluntariness and freedom.
The phonological correspondences of in this position are thus complex; she has got them seriously muddled.
Mistaking one kind of model for another, or muddling when we are modeling what, too often results in needless, self-perpetuating polemics.
There is a sort of cohesiveness and interpretative neatness imposed on what might in fact be an otherwise muddled set of audiences and purposes.
The bibliography is rather muddled in arrangement and omits some key primary sources cited in the footnotes.
If we focus instead on average tendencies, the picture is still muddled.
Given the costs and the uncertainty of privatizing public corporations, they prefer to muddle through.
Spotting a narrative where there only seemed muddle at the time.
Because of its implied sense of 'goodness', the discussion often becomes muddled.
The political case was 'muddled in public and muddled in private' (p. 96).
The terminology is seriously muddled, even in traditional terms.
In particular, "muddle," like "accident" appears to suspend any question of culpability.
They have failed to achieve this through a complicated muddle of government policy, ignorance and cold-heartedness.
It is surprising how often at the bedside delirious patients muddle mornings and afternoons.
This being the case, we should recognize also the inevitability that muddled outcomes will often result.
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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