[每日] addle (v) 使混亂
Word of the Day (Sunday November 2, 2008)
addle \AD-'l\, verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/4d53O
1. to make or become muddled or confused
2. to make or become rotten or putrid
As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner
Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night.
-- Frank Rich, Pros at Play, Time, May 6, 1975
United Nations troops waited to take up their posts as guards to
ensure that no liquor, women or bribe money was smuggled in to
addle the judgment of the Deputies.
-- Empty Campus, Time, July 13, 1957
You'd think you'd have to be seriously dumb to be fooled in this
way but there's undeniably something about residential property,
whether an investment or simply a family home, that can addle
the brains of otherwise quite sensible people.
-- Liz Dolan, Money surgery: keep property out of pensions, Daily
Telegraph, May 17, 2001
by 1712, from addle (n.) "urine, liquid filth," from Old English
adela "mud, mire, liquid manure" (cognate with Old Swedish adel
"urine," Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal "puddle"). Used in
noun phrase addle egg (c.1250) "egg that does not hatch, rotten
egg," literally "urine egg," a loan translation of Latin ovum
urinum, which is itself an erroneous loan translation of Greek
ourion oon "putrid egg," literally "wind egg," from ourios "of
the wind" (confused by Roman writers with ourios "of urine,"
from ouron "urine"). Because of this usage, the noun in English
was taken as an adjective from c. 1600, meaning "putrid," and
thence given a figurative extension to "empty, vain, idle," also
"confused, muddled, unsound" (1706). The verb followed.
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