| 词汇 | muddying |
| 释义 | muddying present participle ofmuddy muddy verb[ T ] uk /ˈmʌd.i/ us /ˈmʌd.i/ to put mud (= wet, sticky earth) into something or cover something with mud: 使粘上烂泥;使浑浊 Industrial activity has muddied the river.工业生产活动使这条河变浑浊了。 Making things dirty & untidy blacken clutter clutter something up contaminate defile dirty mark mess mix mix someone/something up muddle muddle something up muss pollute polluter recontaminate soil stain tarnish the polluter pays principleidiom Idiommuddy the waters Examples of muddyingmuddying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds (pp. 1012-13). The stress is on flexibility, mobility, mediations, machinations, intrigue, sometimes invisibility, and often an ' intentional muddying of the waters ' (p. 113). Such muddying of the theoretical waters can be valuable. This article has made me reflect on how far we can push our institutions into muddying their ivory towers with the mess of reallife work practices. I am satisfied that the first aim is not necessary and might well have the effect of muddying the law rather than clarifying it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Research-minded doctors would sense the need to move carefully and would see the importance of not muddying the evidence by using techniques indiscriminately. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there are no secret reasons, it is merely confusing the issue and muddying the waters to hint at them now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This appears to be muddying the coastal waters even further than is normally the case across international boundaries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This amendment would avoid muddying the waters in the relationship between the police and the public, including past offenders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will they tell us, without muddying the waters by referring always to the pupil/teacher ratio? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nor, indeed, would it be true to say that we are muddying waters which have remained undisturbed for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That has to be done carefully and without muddying the waters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the muddying of the issue as regards daylight and nightlight is not relevant because there are more nights than dark days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will tell him who was muddying the water a moment ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The disagreement may in part stem from a muddying of two distinct issues. 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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