| 词汇 | cluttering |
| 释义 | cluttering present participle ofclutter clutter verb[ T ] uk /ˈklʌt.ər/ us /ˈklʌt̬.ɚ/ to fill something in an untidy or badly organized way: 塞满，乱堆在;使散乱 The kids always clutter the hall (up)with school bags and coats and stuff.孩子们总是在厅里乱放书包、外套和乱七八糟的东西。 Every shelf is cluttered with ornaments.每层架子上都塞满了装饰品。 figurativeI try not to clutter (up) my mind with useless information.我尽量不往脑子里装那些无用的东西。 Opposite clear 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 Related wordcluttered Examples of clutteringcluttering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The first rule avoids cluttering up the key with identifiers that account for only a small fraction of the total storage allocated. The editors have packed the volume without cluttering it. Local traffic increased enormously, crowding our old streets, cluttering and destroying the splendour of the monumental squares. We have succeeded in cluttering up our roads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At times of heavy trade there is much cluttering up in the docks, together with congestion and frustration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to discourage him from cluttering it up, but sheer prohibition is too drastic and the wrong way to go about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or must we have a joint committee cluttering up the earth with indirectly elected authorities with no popular support whatever? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were also conscious of the need to avoid cluttering up primary legislation with unnecessary or contingent administrative detail. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That work should cut out much of the dead wood and greatly reduce the bulk of local law that is cluttering the statute book. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 More should be done to see that heavy freight goes by rail instead of cluttering up the road networks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One does not modernise the law by cluttering it with statutes that will not be printed or available to anyone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The "big boys"do not want a lot of"small boys" cluttering up their playground. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what we want to avoid—cluttering up the courts with small offences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing could be worse than cluttering up our already overcrowded statute book with unnecessary or overburdening legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These old people must go into ordinary homes instead of cluttering up mental hospitals. 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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