muddied

英 [ˈmʌdid]

美 [ˈmʌdid]

v.  使变得泥泞; 使浑浊
muddy的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：muddied　过去式：muddied　

BNC.42994 / COCA.34094

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 沾满泥的;多泥的;泥泞的
  Something that ismuddycontains mud or is covered in mud.
  1. ...a muddy track...
     泥泞的小道
  2. The ground was still very muddy.
     地上还很泥泞。
  3. ...his muddy boots.
     他沾满泥的靴子
• VERB 使沾上泥
  If youmuddysomething, you cause it to be muddy.
  1. The ground still smelled of rain and they muddied their shoes...
     地面还散发着雨后的气息，他们把鞋上弄得全是泥。
  2. His new grey jacket was torn and muddied.
     他新买的灰色夹克被撕破了，还弄上了泥巴。
• ADJ-GRADED 暗褐色的;土黄色的
  Muddyis used to describe a colour which is dull and brownish.
  1. The paper has turned a muddy colour.
     报纸已变成土黄色了。
• VERB 使更为复杂;使难以理解
  If someone or somethingmuddiesa situation or issue, they cause it to seem less clear and less easy to understand.
  1. It's difficult enough without muddying the issue with religion.
     即使不把宗教牵扯进去，这个问题也已经够棘手的了。
  2. ...the mixed motives that muddied Mr Crane's efforts.
     使克兰先生的努力变得难以理解的复杂动机

双语例句

• At the beginning, someone accidentally fell into the water field with the cart and was muddied all over.
  开始时，不时有人连人带车栽进水田里去，弄得浑身上下泥人一般。
• Of course, the picture is muddied by the vast changes that religion went through in the journey from tribal dancing to Anglican hymns.
  当然，随着宗教经历了从部落舞蹈到圣公会赞歌的发展，巨大的变化也使这种优势模糊了。
• Accountants also suggest that the evolution of financial reporting might have muddied the waters.
  会计师们还暗示，财务报表的演进可能也把水搅得更混。
• A hole in the bow of the ship made by a torpedo. The first blow muddied his head.
  鱼雷在船头击出一个洞。头一击就把他打糊涂了。
• There are as yet no tracks through the drifts, no muddied slush in the roads.
  至今积雪上还没有任何足迹，道路上也没有踏脏的雪泥。
• Undoubtedly, some men on the front lines did leave their frozen, muddied trenches to not only bury their dead, but to exchange gifts of tobacco or even tunic button.
  毋庸置疑，在前线，有些男人的确离开了冰冷泥泞的战壕，不仅为了埋葬死者，也是为了交换礼物&烟草，甚至是外衣钮扣。
• Industrial activity has muddied the river, like so many of the other once clear chalk streams of the area.
  工业活动使这条河变浑浊了，就像该地区其它许多曾经清澈的白垩河流一样。
• But qe3 has muddied the waters, traders say.
  但交易员表示，qe3把情况搞复杂了。
• For a time die-hard Rightists may have muddied the waters in some organizations so that we could not see to the bottom.
  坚决的右派分子，在一个时候，在一些单位，可以把水搞得很混，使我们看不见底。
• -Laughter: mood-improving endorphins are released when we laugh, which seems an obvious reason to do it but a 10-year study muddied the waters when it found more laughter is produced by banal comments than jokes.
  2-笑：当我们笑时，会释放改善情绪的安多酚，这个理由看似显而易见。但一项长达10年的研究发现，陈腔滥调比笑话更能引人发笑，这又让人糊涂了。