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 ‘addled 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 ‘addled 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).
双语例句
1. You're talking like an addled romantic.
你说话像个糊里糊涂耽于幻想的人。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She wore a sweet and slightly addled expression.
她一脸小迷糊的可爱样儿。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Being in love must have addled your brain.
坠入爱河必已使你神魂颠倒。
来自《权威词典》
4. He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.
