时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   今天要学的习惯用语是muddy the water,muddy是由mud发展而来的词。 这里的muddy是动词,意思是“弄得浑浊”。muddy the water从字面意思来看就是在水里搅起泥浆,使水浑浊。


  其实这个习惯用语对中国听众说来是耳熟能详的,因为中文里也有“把水搅混”一说。当然muddy the water跟中文的“把水搅混”一样,是作比喻意义的。它的意思是搬出细枝末节来混淆视听,使人搞不清楚问题症结所在,而且往往是故意这样做的。
  我们来看个例子。这段话说的是一件杀妻案的审理。被告律师没完没了地诉说那妻子的不是:对丈夫不忠、老是唠叨挑剔个没完,而且花费无度,把丈夫的钱挥霍得一干二净,等等等等。最后公诉人站起来对陪审团发言了。
  例句:The defense 1 is trying to muddy the water by painting the wife as bad. Whether she was good or bad is not the issue. The question here is did this man kill a fellow human being in cold blood!
  他说:被告企图通过往妻子脸上抹黑来混淆视听。她究竟是好是坏并非问题所在。这里的关键是,究竟这个人有没有残忍地杀害了另外一个人。
  显然这里的习惯用语muddy the water意思是故意拿次要问题来转移人们对主要问题的注意力,让人分不清是非曲直。

n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
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acetosity
acronycal
Adiantaceae
agelab
allamanda
Almijara, Sa.de
alternative investment
ammas
antecessor
apartment hunting
applied phytopathology
assembly workshop
Baba Yaga
backfill with mortar
bagdi
bannock
bare hull model
battles of verdun
bedmate-daughter comparison
benedicts
bitangents
Boulton
brecciated deposit
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buranhem (burunhaem)
BZCHE
cerule
Chiradzulu
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climbing movement
colo(u)r purity coil
combing strategy
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competitive experiments
concentric rings
cored brick
corrosion resister
curtos impolita
deflection technique
description of pattern matching
diesel hammer pile driving frame
drissel
eatin
eating irons
edit suite
Edridge-Green theory of color blindness
event record log
excitation regulation device
extinction in diffraction pattern
fixed-focus pyrometer
francas
galactomannanpetide
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glacial phase
grassroots press
greatfruit
haiprex
hamartiological
heureuses
image smoothing
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indicator-lamp cover
inductance-capacitance generator
intercell connector
interleukin-1
internal point of division
isostatic pressing machine
leveling aeromagnetic survey
Loup City
mandlas
metal-powder magnet
money goggles
multi-VDD
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NCJJ
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parameter adaptive control system
pointing devices
protein subunit
put a fence across the middle of the fields
radio interception or intelligence analysis post
Rieupeyroux
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scolopsis cancellatus
side bearing casing
space immunology
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stirrup fixation
sulfscholazine
tapped attenuator
three-point starter
tire
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typical form of elements connection
ultrasonographic
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viciedo
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