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GRE 红宝书

• v.拖步走; 支吾; 洗牌
• ［英］ v.支吾 ( to act or speak in a evasive manner)
• ［同］ 参考: reshuffle ( 重新改组)
• ［例］ Don't shuffle, give a definite answer.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (shuffled; shuffling)

• Etymology: perhaps irregular from ［sup］1［/sup］shove
• Date: 1570
• transitive verb
  • 1. to mix in a mass confusedly ; jumble
  • 2. to put or thrust aside or under cover <shuffled the whole matter out of his mind>
  • 3.
    • a. to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a random order
    • b. to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another ; shift <shuffle funds among various accounts>
  • 4.
    • a. to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting
    • b. to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to work into or out of trickily <shuffled out of the difficulty>
  • 2. to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner
  • 3.
    • a. to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet
    • b. to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet
    • c. to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner
  • 4. to mix playing cards or counters by shuffling
• ? shuffler noun

II. noun

• Date: 1628
• 1. an evasion of the issue ; equivocation
• 2.
  • a. an act of shuffling (as of cards)
  • b. a right or turn to shuffle <it's your shuffle>
  • c. a confusing jumble (as of papers or events) <lost in the shuffle>
• 3.
  • a. a dragging sliding movement; specifically a sliding or scraping step in dancing
  • b. a dance characterized by such a step
  • c.
    • (1) a rhythm where each beat of the measure is played as a triplet with the first and second parts of the triplet tied and the third part accented
    • (2) music played in a shuffle rhythm

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