murky
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源自中古英語 mirky,等价于murk + -y。与古諾爾斯語 myrkr、俄語 мрак (mrak)、塞爾維亞-克羅地亞語 мра̑к有关。
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murky (比較級 murkier,最高級 murkiest)
- (指雾等) 模糊的,厚而看不透的
- 昏暗的
- 模糊的,浑浊的,朦胧的;多云的;隐晦的,暧昧不清的
- murky waters
- 浑水,搅不清的事情
- murky territory
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- 2021 4月 21, Anatoly Liberman, “Going out on a Limb”, 出自 Oxford Etymologist[1]:
- They may face an impenetrable word, approach its murky history from every direction, and fail to find a convincing solution (or even any solution: “origin unknow,” “the rest is unclear,” and the like).
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- 2022 12月 23, Keith Bradsher, Amy Chang Chien, Joy Dong, “As Cases Explode, China’s Low Covid Death Toll Convinces No One”, 出自 The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.
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- (引申义) 可疑的
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- “murky”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
- “murky”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302