Addle

(verb.) become rotten; 'addled eggs'.

(verb.) mix up or confuse; 'He muddled the issues'.

阿奇校对

• I never did see such a addle-headed old creetur! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Don't addle their English brains with your classical rubbish, shouted Crispin satirically; if you do, they may wreck us. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She stretched out a great red hand and arm on each side of her, so as to bar the doorway, and slowly nodded her addle head at me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He might have spent the full term there, but, as already noted, his teacher had found him addled. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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