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词汇 fuddle
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Definition of fuddle in English:

fuddle

verb ˈfʌd(ə)lˈfədl
[with object]usually as adjective fuddled
  • 1Confuse or stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.

    (尤指用酒)使糊涂;使酩酊大醉

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pain, cold, and exhaustion fuddled Sara's mind, but she managed to recall the last thing that had happened.
    • He keeps a clear head whilst she becomes fuddled.
    • For fans too fuddled by technology to get to grips with the membership scheme which allowed free downloads from the French band's website, this will be much more reassuringly old-fashioned.
    • Something that will let me do a bit of much-needed spring cleaning in my fuddled brain.
    • I was worried about leaving Rob with them, in case his simple brain was fuddled by their complex arguments of Just Because, All Right?
    • My thoughts were fuddled and I thought for a few minutes that my mind was just tired, but in the end I decided it wasn't that I was tired… it was that I wasn't going to fight my thoughts when I knew they weren't lying to me.
    • If you fuddle people's brains with legal-speak, they're bound to start thinking about something else, like Turkish immigrants.
    • The naming conventions of Intel processors has kept me a bit fuddled for the last few years.
    • At elections, when our minds are fuddled by fudged facts and slanted statistics, we ordinary mugs need merely study the smooth political faces on the television - and sniff.
    • Trouble is, it's a dangerously ambiguous thing to say and Evangelicals who want to be ‘open and affirming’ are fuddled by the inability to distinguish the theology from the therapy.
    • Forget the picture of fuddled labourers reeling in fields at harvest time after draughts of the farmer's rudimentary cider.
    • I was a bit fuddled, but it's certainly a very strange album.
    • I'm half asleep and I have to streak over to the other side of the house to the keypad and when I get there, I'm all fuddled because the alarm is shrieking, and I'm half-asleep, and I'm so confused, and I blank out on the code.
    • They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
    • The cannabis debate can fuddle the brain almost as much as the drug itself.
    • But I reserve the right to feel that their thinking is fuddled.
    • It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts.
    • Any royal guards that came into this place would, of course, stop for a pint, and by the time he'd finished Murphy's ale, he'd be too fuddled to lace his own boots, much less discover the whole world that existed just below the dirty floor.
    • The early C minor quartet has elements of greatness imbued in it but the ideas are slightly fuddled and the composer was to improve quite immeasurably later.
    • ‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
    Synonyms
    muddle, daze, stupefy, befuddle, bewilder, confuse, perplex, baffle, obscure
    1. 1.1archaic no object Go on a drinking bout.
      〈古〉狂饮,酗酒
noun ˈfʌd(ə)lˈfədl
  • 1A state of confusion or intoxication.

    糊涂;醉

    through the fuddle of wine he heard some of the conversation

    在醉酒的状态下他听到谈话的一些内容。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
    1. 1.1archaic A drinking bout.
      〈古〉狂饮,酗酒
      Synonyms
      drinking bout, debauch

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense 'go on a drinking bout'): of unknown origin.

Rhymes

befuddle, cuddle, huddle, muddle, puddle, ruddle

Definition of fuddle in US English:

fuddle

verbˈfədlˈfədl
[with object]
  • 1Confuse or stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.

    (尤指用酒)使糊涂;使酩酊大醉

    my head was aching and my brain seemed fuddled
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He keeps a clear head whilst she becomes fuddled.
    • I'm half asleep and I have to streak over to the other side of the house to the keypad and when I get there, I'm all fuddled because the alarm is shrieking, and I'm half-asleep, and I'm so confused, and I blank out on the code.
    • The early C minor quartet has elements of greatness imbued in it but the ideas are slightly fuddled and the composer was to improve quite immeasurably later.
    • For fans too fuddled by technology to get to grips with the membership scheme which allowed free downloads from the French band's website, this will be much more reassuringly old-fashioned.
    • Any royal guards that came into this place would, of course, stop for a pint, and by the time he'd finished Murphy's ale, he'd be too fuddled to lace his own boots, much less discover the whole world that existed just below the dirty floor.
    • Pain, cold, and exhaustion fuddled Sara's mind, but she managed to recall the last thing that had happened.
    • Trouble is, it's a dangerously ambiguous thing to say and Evangelicals who want to be ‘open and affirming’ are fuddled by the inability to distinguish the theology from the therapy.
    • Forget the picture of fuddled labourers reeling in fields at harvest time after draughts of the farmer's rudimentary cider.
    • It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts.
    • The naming conventions of Intel processors has kept me a bit fuddled for the last few years.
    • The cannabis debate can fuddle the brain almost as much as the drug itself.
    • If you fuddle people's brains with legal-speak, they're bound to start thinking about something else, like Turkish immigrants.
    • They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
    • I was worried about leaving Rob with them, in case his simple brain was fuddled by their complex arguments of Just Because, All Right?
    • But I reserve the right to feel that their thinking is fuddled.
    • I was a bit fuddled, but it's certainly a very strange album.
    • ‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
    • Something that will let me do a bit of much-needed spring cleaning in my fuddled brain.
    • At elections, when our minds are fuddled by fudged facts and slanted statistics, we ordinary mugs need merely study the smooth political faces on the television - and sniff.
    • My thoughts were fuddled and I thought for a few minutes that my mind was just tired, but in the end I decided it wasn't that I was tired… it was that I wasn't going to fight my thoughts when I knew they weren't lying to me.
    Synonyms
    muddle, daze, stupefy, befuddle, bewilder, confuse, perplex, baffle, obscure
    1. 1.1archaic no object Go on a drinking bout.
      〈古〉狂饮,酗酒
nounˈfədlˈfədl
  • 1A state of confusion or intoxication.

    糊涂;醉

    through the fuddle of wine he heard some of the conversation

    在醉酒的状态下他听到谈话的一些内容。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
    1. 1.1archaic A drinking bout.
      〈古〉狂饮,酗酒
      Synonyms
      drinking bout, debauch

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense ‘go on a drinking bout’): of unknown origin.

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