词为我用 - garble

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词汇释义

garble UK/ˈɡɑː.bəl/ US/ˈɡɑːr.bəl/  TEM8 GRE

vt, to make words or messages unclear and difficult to understand. 让（话或信息）变得含混不清，易引起误解

外刊例句

1. So if two nodes tried to send packets of data to the hub at the same time, the resulting "collision" would garble both their transmissions.(The Economist)

2. Frank talk is also discouraged: radio stations opted to garble the lyrics to a popular Lady Gaga song, "Born This Way", which urges tolerance of homosexuality.(The Economist)

3. A similar irritation (minus the sweetness) is often felt by users of speech-recognition software, which still manages to garble and twist even the most clearly spoken words.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

garble information, messages, words

词汇来源

early 15c., "to inspect and remove the dirt and dross from (spices)," from Anglo-French garbeler "to sift" (late 14c.) and directly from Medieval Latin, Catalan, and Italian garbellare, from Arabic gharbal "to sift," related to kirbal "sieve," which perhaps is from Late Latin cribellum, diminutive of Latin cribrum "sieve" (from PIE root *krei- "to sieve"). Apparently the word was widespread among Mediterranean traders (compare Italian garbellare, Spanish garbillare "to sift grain").

In later-medieval Europe, pepper and ginger and some other spices were always imports from the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean, and the same goes for many botanical drugs, and a few expensive colorants. The spices, drugs and colorants had variable amounts of natural chaff residuals and occasionally had unnatural added chaff. ["English Words of Arabic Ancestry"]

From late 15c. in a general sense of "sort out the finer parts" of anything, "removal of what is objectionable," then "distort for some devious purpose or to give false impression;" especially "mix up, confuse or distort language" (1680s). Related: Garbled; garbling. In Middle English garbeler (Anglo-French garbelour) meant "official who garbles spices and sometimes also other dry goods" (early 15c.); it is attested from 1690s as "one who mixes up or mutilates words or language."

近义词

bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp

反义词

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out,decipher

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