addled: [13] Addled may be traceable back ultimately to a confusion between ‘wind’ and ‘urine’ in Latin. In Middle English the term was adel eye ‘a(chǎn)ddled egg’. of which the first part derived from Old English adela ‘foul-smelling urine or liquid manure’. It seems possible that this may be a loan-translation of the Latin term for ‘a(chǎn)ddled egg’, ōvum ūrīnae, literally ‘urine egg’. This in turn was an alteration, by folk etymology, of ōvum ūrīnum, a partial loantranslation of Greek oúrion ōón, literally ‘wind egg’ (a wind egg is an imperfect or addled egg).
雙語例句
1. You're talking like an addled romantic.
你說話像個糊里糊涂耽于幻想的人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She wore a sweet and slightly addled expression.
她一臉小迷糊的可愛樣兒。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Being in love must have addled your brain.
墜入愛河必已使你神魂顛倒。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.