| 释义 |
bemuse, v.|bɪˈmjuːz|
[f. be- 2 + muse v.: cf. amuse.]
trans. To make utterly confused or muddled, as with intoxicating liquor; to put into a stupid stare, to stupefy. Hence beˈmused, beˈmusing ppl. a.
1735Pope Prol. Sat. 15 A parson much be-mus'd in beer. 1771J. Foot Penseroso iv. 196 [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies. 1847H. Miller First Impr. xix. (1861) 265 The bad metaphysics with which they bemuse themselves. 1880McCarthy Own Times xxx. III. 2 A Prussian was regarded in England as a dull beer-bemused creature.
¶ humorously, To devote entirely to the Muses.
1705Pope Let. H. Cromwell Wks. 1735 I. 15 When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd. |