slurring n. 型芯粘合法
- She slurred over the high cost of her plan.
她避而不提她这一计画费用之巨. - That newspaper cast a slur upon the statesmanship of the presidential candidate.
那报纸对这位总统候选人的治国才能表示轻蔑。
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.
- Okoye, a Roman Catholic in the Kansas City, Kan., archdiocese, has claimed police misinterpreted his strong foreign accent as slurring his words.
- Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for two weeks by New York Newsday after slurring an Asian-American co-worker.
- Another sailor, Gunner's Mate Kendall Truitt, has charged the Navy with slurring his reputation.