addle

• vt. 台無しにする。
• vi. 劣化する；混乱する
• adj.腐る；混乱する；見当がつかなくなる

古英語から。

addle (v.)

1712, from addle (n.) "urine, liquid filth," from Old English adela "mud, mire, liquid manure" (cognate with Old Swedish adel "urine," Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal "puddle").

Used in noun phrase addle egg (mid-13c.) "egg that does not hatch, rotten egg," literally "urine egg," a loan-translation of Latin ovum urinum, which is itself an erroneous loan-translation of Greek ourion oon "putrid egg," literally "wind egg," from ourios "of the wind" (confused by Roman writers with ourios "of urine," from ouron "urine"). Because of this usage, from c. 1600 the noun in English was taken as an adjective meaning "putrid," and thence given a figurative extension to "empty, vain, idle," also "confused, muddled, unsound" (1706). The verb followed a like course. Related: Addled; addling.

1. The object is to addle and not to elucidate.

その目的は解明のためではなく混同のためである。

2.Eggs addle quickly in hot weather.

卵は暑い日に壊れやすい。

3.The manager busied himself all day and got addle brained.

このマネージャーは一日中忙しくて頭がぼんやりしている。

4.Why lying to see a book you can make eye addle ？

横になって本を読むと目が悪くなるのはなぜ？

5.He is quite forgetful，and called an addle head by others.

彼は一日中忘れていて、みんなは彼を愚か者と呼んでいる。