Slur



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.含糊不清地讲
• ［英］ v.含糊不清地讲 ( to slide over without due emphasis)
• ［类］ slur : speech / smudge : writing ( 含糊讲话 / ? 髌? 反义词: pronounce clearly ( 清楚地发音)
• ［记］ 和blur ( 弄脏, 变? ? 一起记

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: obsolete English dialect slur thin mud, from Middle English sloor; akin to Middle High German slier mud
• Date: 1609
• 1.
  • a. an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo ; aspersion
  • b. a shaming or degrading effect ; stain, stigma
• 2. a blurred spot in printed matter ; smudge

II. verb (slurred; slurring)

• Date: 1660
• transitive verb
  • 1. to cast aspersions on ; disparage <slurred his reputation>
  • 2. to make indistinct ; obscure
• intransitive verb
  • to slip so as to cause a slur — used of a sheet being printed

III. verb (slurred; slurring)

• Etymology: probably from Low German slurrn to shuffle; akin to Middle English sloor mud
• Date: 1660
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to slide or slip over without due mention, consideration, or emphasis <slurred over certain facts>
    • b. to perform hurriedly ; skimp <let him not slur his lesson — R. W. Emerson>
  • 2. to perform (successive tones of different pitch) in a smooth or connected manner
  • 3.
    • a. to reduce, make a substitution for, or omit (sounds that would normally occur in an utterance)
    • b. to utter with such reduction, substitution, or omission of sounds <his speech was slurred>
• intransitive verb
  • 1. dialect chiefly England slip, slide
  • 2. drag, shuffle

IV. noun

• Date: circa 1801
• 1.
  • a. a curved line connecting notes to be sung to the same syllable or performed without a break
  • b. the combination of two or more slurred tones
• 2. a slurring manner of speech

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