单词	muddle
释义	muddle1 nounmuddle2 verb muddlemud‧dle1 /ˈmʌdl/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a legal muddle EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Gerald Ford getting into a muddle about what was and wasn't a Warsaw Pact country. It is too valuable a document of human heartbreak and muddle to be scorned or dismissed. Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along, we live in a perpetual muddle. None of the muddle in her room mattered. Over the years the generations had gotten into a chronological muddle. She could sense his muddle, and it touched her. This book assesses the technological fix for the muddle left by downsizing and reengineering. Unless, of course, there had been a muddle in the names. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorconfused► confused not able to understand what is happening, what someone is saying etc, especially when this makes you feel worried: · I'm a little confused - could you explain it again?· She felt hurt and confused when her husband left her.confused about: · We're a little confused about what we're supposed to be doing.get confused: · Every time someone tries to explain the Internet to me, I get even more confused. ► confusion the feeling you have when you are confused, or a situation in which people are confused: · The new rules have caused a lot of confusion.confusion about/over: · There is still confusion over who is responsible for the accident.throw somebody/something into confusion (=make them feel confused): · The final scene of the play threw much of the audience into confusion. ► be in a muddle British informal confused, especially because you are trying to do something complicated or because you have a lot of things to do: · I wonder if you could help Emma sort out the papers -- she's in a bit of a muddle.be in a muddle about: · There were four phone calls at once and the secretary was in a muddle about who wanted to talk to who.get into a muddle: · It's best to paint the background first and then the pattern. That way you don't get into a muddle. ► bewildered very confused and surprised when something unusual and unexpected happens to you: · He was bewildered to find three policemen at the front door.· Police took a burglary report from a bewildered resident.bewildered by/at: · At first she was bewildered by all the noise and activity of the city. ► bemused confused, surprised, and slightly annoyed by what has happened, or by what someone has said: · She told him to leave, but he just sat there with a bemused expression on his face.bemused by: · Shop-owners and residents alike seem bemused by the recent arrival of so many tourists. ► mixed-up informal confused, especially over a long period of time, and unable to decide what to do, especially because of personal or emotional problems: · Carol wrote poems about her feelings to try and figure out why she felt so mixed-up.· With parents like that, it's no wonder he's a mixed-up kid. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► get · Gerald Ford getting into a muddle about what was and wasn't a Warsaw Pact country. 1be in a muddle/get into a muddle British English a)to be confused:  I’m in such a muddle, I’d completely forgotten you were coming today.muddle over/about My grandmother tends to get into a muddle over names. b)to be untidy or in a disorganized state:  Sorry about the mess – we’re in a bit of a muddle at the moment. All my files have got into a muddle somehow.2[countable usually singular, uncountable] when there is confusion about something, and things are done wrong as a result:  Our accountant finally managed to sort out the muddle.muddle over/about There was a bit of a muddle over our hotel reservations. muddle1 nounmuddle2 verb muddlemuddle2 (also muddle up) verb [transitive] especially British English Word Origin WORD ORIGINmuddle2 Origin: 1500-1600 Probably from early Dutch moddelen ‘to make muddy’, from Middle Dutch modde ‘mud’ Verb Table VERB TABLE muddle Simple Form Present I, you, we, they muddle he, she, it muddles Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they muddled Present perfect I, you, we, they have muddled he, she, it has muddled Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had muddled Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will muddle Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have muddled Continuous Form Present I am muddling he, she, it is muddling you, we, they are muddling Past I, he, she, it was muddling you, we, they were muddling Present perfect I, you, we, they have been muddling he, she, it has been muddling Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been muddling Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be muddling Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been muddling Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I found them to be muddled, frightened, weary. Passion starts to muddle my thinking. Several incidents are clever and revealing, others muddled. The lines between re-creations and reality are so muddled that some news programs have even used Hollywood films to illustrate news stories. They muddled around the fringes of true power, never quite brave enough or decisive enough to take the plunge. While children were very young it was possible to muddle through. You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck. You can see why it is easy to be muddled about carbohydrate. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► get ... muddled up  Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. ► got ... muddled up  Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► along · Analytical ability Does the candidate reason his or her way through the question or simply muddle along its surface?· The challenge is overcoming that nagging sense that old ideas are merely being reworked, that sense of muddling along.· Yet it is not clear if the Communist party has an alternative strategy or is just muddling along. ► through · They must muddle through in a fog of grumble and contempt.· You muddle through, reduced to selling your own ads to make a decent buck.· While children were very young it was possible to muddle through.· Like so many other students, he had muddled through without having to break a sweat.· When it comes to the detail of everyday life most of us just muddle through somehow, but Dennis was a Platonist.· She just has to muddle through.· My own feeling in 1981 was that we should try to achieve something better and that just muddling through was not enough.· Or I can stay, as I know I probably will. Muddle through. ► up · It's too bad of Blondel, he keeps getting them muddled up and out of order.· It is likely that a good many valuable stones were destroyed in this way because Pliny was muddling up hardness and toughness. VERB► get · It's too bad of Blondel, he keeps getting them muddled up and out of order. 1to put things in the wrong order:  Someone’s muddled up all the papers on my desk. The government seems to have lost its way and muddled its priorities.2to confuse one person or thing with another, and make a mistake SYN  mix up:  The twins are so alike that it’s easy to muddle them up. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up.muddle something with something Be careful not to muddle the files you’ve already worked on with the others.3to confuse someone, especially so that they make a mistake:  Don’t muddle her with all the extra details at the moment. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up.muddle along/on phrasal verb to continue doing something without having any clear plan or purpose, or without having enough help or support:  There’s no point in muddling on in the same old job forever. Many of the students complained that they were left to muddle along on their own.muddle through (something) phrasal verb especially British English to succeed in doing something with difficulty, or not in a very satisfactory way:  There were some difficult questions but I managed to muddle through. The team managed to muddle through another season.
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