muffle

大学 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 低沉的声音, 拳击手套, 唇鼻部, 围巾, 头巾 vt. 围裹, 抑制, 发低沉的声音

发音

AU /mʌfl̩/

词形变化

muffles 复数 muffles muffled muffles 三单 muffleth muffling muffling 现在分词 muffled 过去式 muffled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

低沉的声音；消声器；包裹物（如头巾，围巾等）；唇鼻部

动词

蒙住；裹住；抑制；发低沉的声音

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Anything that mutes or deadens sound.

  2. 2.

    A warm piece of clothing for the hands.

  3. 3.

    A boxing glove.

    古体 俚语
  4. 4.

    A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)

  5. 5.

    The bare end of the nose between the nostrils, especially in ruminants.

  6. 6.

    A machine with two pulleys to hoist load by spinning wheels, polyspast, block and tackle.

v.
  1. 1.

    To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.

    及物

    to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock

  3. 3.

    To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).

    及物
  4. 4.

    To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

    过时 不及物
  5. 5.

    To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

    过时 及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

kiln
动词

同义词 9

dull mute strangle damp smother stifle repress dampen tone down

上位词 4

suppress soften inhibit bottle up

相关短语

muffle furnace [化] 马弗炉 [医] 灰解炉, 隔焰炉 muffle furnaces muffle up

词源

From Middle English muflen (“to muffle”), aphetic alteration of Anglo-Norman amoufler, from Old French enmoufler (“to wrap up, muffle”), from moufle (“mitten”), from Medieval Latin muffula (“a muff”), of Germanic origin (—first recorded in the Capitulary of Aachen in 817 C.E.), from Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) from *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) (from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”)) + *vël (“skin, hide”) (from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”). Alternate etymology traces the Medieval Latin word to Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”), English mulch) + *fell (“hide, skin”).

来源：wiktionary