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单词 muddy
释义
muddy
adjective
uk
/ˈmʌd.i/us
/ˈmʌd.i/

muddyadjective(DIRTY)

B2
coveredby orcontainingmud(=wet,stickyearth):
泥泞的；浑浊的；粘满烂泥的
Don'tbringthose muddybootsinside!别把那双粘满烂泥的靴子拿进来！
muddywater浑浊的水
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirty & untidy
  • all over the placeidiom
  • Augean
  • bedraggled
  • besmeared
  • bespattered
  • bloodied
  • insalubrious
  • insanitary
  • lie
  • look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
  • manky
  • messily
  • messy
  • mucky
  • soiled
  • sordid
  • sordidly
  • sordidness
  • squalid
  • straggly
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muddyadjective(COLOURS)

Muddycoloursaredarkand notbright:
（颜色）灰暗的，暗淡的
Theroomhas beenpaintedin muddybrownsandgreens.起居室被漆成灰暗的棕色和绿色。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The qualities of colour
  • brightly
  • brightness
  • colourful
  • colourfully
  • darken
  • darkness
  • flamboyance
  • fluorescent
  • garish
  • harsh
  • lurid
  • non-fluorescent
  • non-yellowing
  • pastel
  • prismatic
  • pure
  • riot
  • violent
  • vivid
  • vividness
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muddy
verb[T]
uk
/ˈmʌd.i/us
/ˈmʌd.i/
to putmud(=wet,stickyearth)into something orcoversomething withmud:
使粘上烂泥；使浑浊
Industrialactivityhas muddied theriver.工业生产活动使这条河变浑浊了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making things dirty & untidy
  • blacken
  • blot
  • clutter
  • contaminate
  • defile
  • dirty
  • disarrange
  • mark
  • mess
  • mix
  • mixsomeone/somethingup
  • muddle
  • muddlesomethingup
  • muss
  • pollute
  • polluter
  • recontaminate
  • soil
  • tarnish
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Idiom

muddy the waters
(Definition ofmuddyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmuddy

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The situation is admittedly somewhat muddied by the fact that the construction in is recessive.
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In the case of rise, it is possible that the existence of raise (as opposed to make rise) muddies the waters to an extent.
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My first task will be to say why the focus upon mental representation has muddied the waters.
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Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s, just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades.
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She muddies the waters further in her efforts to justify toleration as recognition.
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They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds.
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Here their prescriptions were often muddied by the residual influences of the patriarchal, theocratic system.
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The picture is muddied somewhat by the fact that inflection itself isn't always regular.
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Because if it rained too much, the water got muddied, spoiling the "stuff" (water mixed with pulped rags) that went into the paper.
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Though the actors liked this because it gave them time to think about the next cycle, it also muddied the enactment of the cycle.
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Hards, where seamen may step ashore without muddying their boots, occur where the water velocity is sufficient to carry away fine clays and sands.
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On this point the waters were about to be muddied even more.
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Reed readily acknowledges these complexities and ambiguities but muddies the water further by attempting to demonstrate that events themselves can bear the same analysis as books can.
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Themuddysymbolic mapping knowledge consists of fuzzy facts, fuzzy rules, and fuzzy procedures.
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However, we argue that scenarios conceptually equivalent to themuddychildren puzzle can occur in robotics.
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