| 单词 | muddling |
| 释义 | ▪ I. muddling, vbl. n.|ˈmʌd(ə)lɪŋ|
[f. muddle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. muddle. Also muddling-along, muddling-through (see muddle v. 6 b).
1829Scott Jrnl. 29 Mar., This muddling among old books has the quality of a sedative. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. xi. 289 Those muddlings of provisions and confusions of language in Acts of Parliament. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment ii. 17 What both Jews and Arabs believed to be a ‘diabolic policy’ was in fact the traditional muddling-along policy. 1955Times 28 July 3/3 Can it be that..we shall abandon the immemorial practice of muddling through, and discover logic and consistency at last?
▪ II. muddling, ppl. a.|ˈmʌd(ə)lɪŋ|
[f. muddle v. + -ing2.]
That muddles.
a1732Gay Fables ii. xiii. 17 How muddling 'tis on books to pore! 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. Stage Coaches v, Finding..at least one muddling mother with a sick—but not silent— infant. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 388 ‘Sheelah’ is an Irish term,..applied to a slovenly or muddling woman. 1883Longm. Mag. July 256 Copyholders..are as a rule..more muddling in their ways, than the dependent labourer.
Hence ˈmuddlingly adv.
1830Lamb Let. to Dyer in Final Mem. xvii. 167 What a power to intoxicate his crude brains, just muddlingly awake to perceive that something is wrong in the social system. |
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