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addled

/ad-ld/US // ˈæd ld //

瘾君子,痴迷的,痴迷,瘾大的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : confused, especially mentally:Given her addled state, the police discounted much of what the witness had to say.
    • : not able to produce viable young:One of the nests had two chicks and two addled eggs.

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Examples

  • These bicyclists can unsettle the pedestrians—who, while watching for drivers, must also contend with the addled cyclists who are variously occupying their crosswalk—or even using the streetscape as a racecourse.

  • Even his addled brain comprehends that only one other creature on Earth understands his true nature.

  • Even as Tenev wrangles toddlers at home, he’ll need to bring discipline to a company prone to behaving like a hormone-addled teenager.

  • It finally looks like New York, which is perpetually addled by traffic, will be constructing a new expressway.

  • Iggy's relatively mature response to this drug-addled drivel?

  • People worked all hours, often addled with booze and drugs, and casual sex was readily available.

  • Similarly irresistible to newscasters was the notion of drug-addled newborns—and warnings of a “crack baby” epidemic.

  • The context of you being a mixed-up, hormone-addled seventh-grader when you read it, alone in your bedroom.

  • But Colonel L'Estrange, who had been there about a fortnight before, found two addled eggs, but saw no birds.

  • I know ye make a dandy good district marshal, but ye are slippin'—goin' addled 'bout this funeral business.

  • His brain must be addled by having had too much to drink this morning.

  • Come, tell me in what decent tavern you have addled your brain?

  • Now in my poor addled brain I had an idea you were engaged for to-night at your aunt's, Lady Blackfriars'.