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 slur [slә:]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 连音符, 诽谤, 玷污, 印刷模糊

vt. 草率地看过, 忽略, 含糊地念

vi. 模糊不清




    slur
    slurred, slurring
    [ noun ]
    1. (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato

    2. <noun.communication>
    3. a disparaging remark

    4. <noun.communication>
      in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion
      it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility
    5. a blemish made by dirt

    6. <noun.attribute>
      he had a smudge on his cheek
    [ verb ]
    1. play smoothly or legato

    2. <verb.creation>
      the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata
    3. speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur

    4. <verb.communication>
      your comments are slurring your co-workers
    5. utter indistinctly

    6. <verb.communication>
    7. become vague or indistinct

    8. <verb.change> blur dim
      The distinction between the two theories blurred


    Slur \Slur\, n.
    1. A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
    stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. ``Gaining
    to his name a lasting slur.'' --South.

    2. A trick played upon a person; an imposition. [R.]

    3. (Mus.) A mark, thus [[upslur] or [downslur]], connecting
    notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in
    one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one
    stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.

    4. In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
    sinkers successively by passing over them.


    Slur \Slur\ (sl[^u]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slurred} (sl[^u]rd);
    p. pr. & vb. n. {Slurring} (sl[^u]r"r[i^]ng).] [Cf. OE. sloor
    mud, clay, Icel. sl[=o]ra, slo[eth]ra, to trail or drag one's
    self along, D. sleuren, sloren, to train, to drag, to do
    negligently and slovenly, D. sloor, sloerie, a sluttish
    girl.]
    1. To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
    --Cudworth.

    2. To disparage; to traduce. --Tennyson.

    3. To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
    lightly or with little notice.

    With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his
    crimes. --Dryden.

    4. To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. [R.]

    To slur men of what they fought for. --Hudibras.

    5. To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables; to slur
    one's words.

    6. (Mus.) To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to
    connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
    --Busby.

    7. (Print.) To blur or double, as an impression from type; to
    mackle.

    1. The caucus resolution was presented to the House of Representatives shortly after Kajiyama's racial slur on Sept. 21.
    2. But the school argues that it has taken great pains to fight racism and attract minorities since a spray-painted slur appeared on the steps of a campus building in October 1986.
    3. The suspension, announced in February, came after a gay magazine quoted Rooney as making a racial slur that the humorist denied saying.
    4. They testified he did not stagger, slur his words or show any signs of intoxication, although three witnesses smelled liquor on his breath.
    5. Most of the also criticized Mayor Kathy Whitmire and black council members for not speaking out strongly against the slur.
    6. Tsutaoka referred to incidents of racial bias last year at the prestigious school, including a racial slur that was scrawled across a black fraternity's poster.
    7. "I called (Arjune) a liar because that's exactly what he did," Mangan said later. "He tried to make it a phony racial incident by lying about our officer and saying she called him a racial slur and hit him with her nightstick.
    8. The Concise Oxford Dictionary has offered a compromise in its long-running quarrel with Jewish groups over its inclusion of the word "Jew" as a racial slur.
    9. General Motors Corp. apologized to San Francisco officials for using a homosexual slur in a promotional video poking fun at a Japanese-made vehicle.
    10. "Any kind of racial slur is offensive to me," he says.
    11. Comedian Jackie Mason, who apologized last week for racial remarks about mayoral candidate David Dinkins, previously used a slur against the black Democrat in talking to Newsweek writers, the magazine says.
    12. This past week, he publicly discussed his arrest on Sept. 1 by officer Patricia Madsen, saying she called him a racial slur, accused him of being a drug dealer and struck him in the back while he was arrested and taken to jail.
    13. BBC vice-chairman Lord Barnett last night described criticisms of Mr Birt as a 'grotesque slur on a very fine man'.
    14. Three white teen-agers taunted a black youth with a racial slur in the stairwell of a public high school, then shot and slightly wounded him, police said.
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