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小词详解 | muddle
America has grown healthily and the rest of the world has muddled along.
美国经济健康增长,世界其他地区也还算过得去。
——《经济学人》Yes, Southern Europe is experiencing an economic crisis thanks to that money muddle.
是的,由于货币引发的混乱,欧洲南部正在经历经济危机。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 使陷入混乱或令人费解的状态
别动——你会弄乱我的文件的。我可是花了好长时间才整理好的。
Don't do that─you're muddling my papers. It took me a long time to collate them.他们神秘隐晦的情书都乱七八糟地放在一个抽屉里。
Their cryptic love letters were all muddled up together in a drawer.
说慢点儿——你都把我搞糊涂了。我真搞不懂你在说什么。
Slow down a little─you're muddling me. I really couldn't fathom what you are talking about.那男人醉醺醺地踉跄着走出了酒吧。他喝了两杯就醉了。
The man lurched drunkenly out of the pub. Two drinks muddled him.
我搞错了日期,早到了一个星期。
I muddled the dates and arrived a week early.
你不必为这事吵吵嚷嚷。我们能想办法应付过去。
You don't have to be blatant about it. We'll muddle through somehow.显然媒体已被封了口,因为什么都没有报道。现在我们能做的顶多就是设法保持冷静,蒙混过关。
The media has obviously been gagged because nothing has been reported. The best we can do now is try to stay cool and muddle through.
我们不能就这样混日子。我们必须设法摆脱贫困的煎熬。
We can't just keep muddling along like this. We must contrive a way to escape the grinding poverty.
我曾在一家戏院兼职当引座员。那里的戏票管理问题一团糟。
I did part-time work as an usher in a theatre. There was a muddle over the theatre tickets.
Bagovut, a sturdy old general of placid disposition, had been worried too by all the delays, the muddles, and the contradictory orders, and, to the amazement of everybody, he flew into a violent rage, quite out of keeping with his character, and said some very nasty things to Toll.
巴戈乌特是一个文静的、能征善战的老将军,他也因为一路拖延、混乱和错误百出被搞得筋疲力竭,令人惊讶的是,他一反平日的温文尔雅,大发雷霆,他对托尔说了许多难听的话。
jumble: mix up in a confused or untidy way disarrange: make (something) untidy or disordered scramble: make (something) jumbled or muddled