英:[mɜ:k]
美:[mɜrk]
英:[mɜ:k]
美:[mɜrk]
词根:murk
adj.murky 黑暗的;朦胧的;阴郁的
adv.murkily 阴沉地;暗淡地
n.murkiness 阴沉;黑暗
"阴暗,黑暗",约1300年, myrke,源自古诺尔斯语 myrkr "黑暗",源自原始日耳曼语 *merkwjo-(也是古英语 mirce "阴暗,黑色,黑暗",作为名词,意为"阴暗,黑暗",丹麦语 mǿrk "黑暗",古撒克逊语 mirki "黑暗"); 可能与古教会斯拉夫语 mraku,塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语 mrak,俄语 mrak "黑暗"; 立陶宛语 merkti "闭上眼睛,眨眼"同源,源自原始印欧语言 *mer- "闪烁"(参见 morn)。中古英语中也用作形容词(约1300年,源自古诺尔斯语)和动词。在苏格兰常拼写为 mirk。Mirk Monday 长期以来是苏格兰对1652年3月29日(新历4月8日)的大日食的称呼。
Middle English mirke, probably from Old Norse myrkr darkness; akin to Old English mirce gloom
The first known use of murk was before the 12th century
murkyadjective
very dark or gloomy
foggy sense 1, misty
difficult to understand
a murky reply designed to confuse
murkyadjective
very dark or gloomy
foggy sense 1, misty
difficult to understand
a murky reply designed to confuse
murknoun
deep darkness or gloomalso: fog entry 1 sense 1a
1 Nailer slid slowly along the wall, questing down into the murk with his toes, feeling for some bump or ledge that would tell him a door lay below.
2 Ready to rise and murk things at a moment’s notice.
3 One tent featured acts bordering on hip-hop, balancing the shiny electronic sounds of much of the festival with some corrective sludge and murk.
4 Tracks murmur and thrum or surge and palpitate, flush with bleary murk and melodic curlicues reminiscent of earthen atmosphere and galactic ascent alike.
5 Out of this murk, one man has emerged full of gritty integrity: pianist Martin Roscoe.
6 Although the movie fades into a narrative murk, it excels at evoking the balance between child and grown-up in these partly unformed women, whose bravado compensates for all they lack in knowledge and experience.
7 By chance, she saw a dark patch looming in the murk ahead of them, and Gubina pulled up the nose of her plane to avoid hitting it.
8 For another, grasping for facts in the murk of political indecision, but writing stories anyway.
9 The long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk.
10 And gradually, out of the medieval murk, the picture comes into focus.
11 While it doesn’t make an entirely coherent case, it does make a poignant one, albeit in a production that bogs down in cacophony and murk just when it most needs lucidity.
12 Gumbo is the swampy soup that defines Louisiana in a bowl – a concoction of mysterious murk, simple ingredients layered together so their flavours meld, but none is identifiable on its own.
13 He was a foul fog, a choking murk of evil vapors, looming and slithering on the ivory floor.
14 But save that flame, all was murk and midnight mist, and silence lay as thick as death.
15 A few excellent dishes surfaced from the murk, like the gently fried spearing and the appetizer of velvety marinated herring with raisins and cauliflower.
16 Glows and grows in the murk of his brain.
在他阴暗沉郁的脑海里闪耀亮光。
17 And as I dug deeper into the Osage murder cases—into the murk of autopsies and witness testimony and probate records—I began to see certain holes in the bureau’s investigation.
18 He leaned to the right, trying to see round the canopy, trying to keep the brim of his sou’wester out of his eyes, trying to make out anything in the teeming murk.
19 Maybe it’s better to refrain from pondering the road ahead, which looks dark enough with or without Stewart and other late-night hosts shepherding us through the murk.
20 From there, the murk of keyboards, factory percussion and muffled voices grows only more oppressive.
3 阴暗
dim misty shadow gloom obscurity scowl umbrage cloud bedim dark murky gloomy shadowy overcast cheerless darkness tenebrific sun wan dull shady dun dusky sable grey clouded darkish stygian chthonic darksome tenebrous disconsolate fuliginous shadily shade obscure cloudiness obscuration shadiness tenebrificate adumbral tenebrious gray night overcloud
6 昏暗
dim murky dusky crepuscular twilit gloom Black dusk wan pale dull sombre cloud lour dark grey shadowy dingy darkling dimly obscurity unlit
7 黑暗
dark murky gloomy somber sable sunless Stygian tenebrous caliginous darkly blackly murkily nigritude night black darkness opaque gloom blackness murkiness darken dusky shade shadow gray obscure pitchy nighttime becloud dun cloud the dark darkened cimmerian pitch dark tenebrific tenebrious onyx Cimmerian rayless scungy obscurity dern
8 漆黑
jet midnight jetty inky jet-black pitch-dark lightless pitchy inkiness black as midnight black as pitch dark as midnight dark as pitch black as ink black as hat as dark as night
9 迷雾