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词汇 murky
释义 murky
adjective
uk /ˈmɜː.ki/ us /ˈmɝː.ki/

murkyadjective (DARK/DIRTY)


dark and dirty or difficult to see through: 黑暗的;不清楚的;肮脏的
The river was brown and murky after the storm.暴风雨过后,河水变成了褐色,浑浊不清。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Opaque
cloudy
dense
frosted
impenetrably
mist
misty
murk
murkily
opaque
thick
turbid
turbidity
ultra-dense

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Describing bad weather

murkyadjective (UNPLEASANT SITUATION)


used to describe a situation that is complicated and unpleasant, and about which many facts are not clear: (形势)复杂难懂的,不明朗的
He became involved in the murky world of international drug-dealing.他卷入了阴暗复杂的跨国贩毒生意中。
I don't want to get into the murky waters of family arguments.我不想趟家庭纠纷这道浑水。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidable
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
onerous
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
toughen
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive

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Uncertainty

murky | American Dictionary


murky
adjective
us/ˈmɜr·ki/
dark or cloudy:
murky waters
The movie has dumb characters and a murky plot (= it is difficult to understand).

Examples of murky


murky
Immobilism which tends to occur in such systems is reinforced by the murky accountability in terms of responsibility of specific political outcomes.
First, it loads them with what some of them would perceive as murky onto logical baggage.
Devaluation was a possibility but the future was murky, as the government had not given any indication of its course.
Yet the history of this break and its politics is murky.
Indeed, even the formulation of the question was murky.
It's much more complicated, a lot more murky.
It sheds much light on the murky world of pleadings, court procedures and the conduct of trials, while frankly admitting what remains unknown.
It is also irritating that the book contains few overt references to other critics, no index, no bibliography, few footnotes and rather murky chapter titles.
This latter episode is still rather murky, and it is a pity that there are only four documents dealing with it here.
On the face of it, this also flouts transparency leaving a murky region of discretion.
It's a bit deeper and murkier than that.
Things seem clear in hindsight, but in the middle of the crisis they are very murky.
We must be clear when there are answers on which most reasonable observers agree and when we are exploring uncharted territory or murky waters.
Of course "masculinity studies" itself is a problem in that what it actually comprises is quite murky.
The succinct descriptions of such incidents and the murky biographies of ordinary inmates preclude geographical or socioeconomic profiling of either victims or assailants.
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