I must have two girls as company while I study, or I can’t learn character--my brain gets muddied .

必得两个女儿伴着我读书,我方能认得字,心里也明白,不然我自己心里糊涂

Emotionalism muddied the meeting.

感情用事使会议混乱不堪。

emotionalism muddied the discussion

感情用事使讨论混乱。

The first blow muddied his head

头一击就把他打糊涂了。

||1:American and Chinese officers are getting to know each other better.||2:Exchanges between their military academies, port calls and high-level visits to each other’s countries have multiplied over the years.||3:But there is still a huge gulf.||4:Much of the interaction is superficial.||5:American officers often describe the Chinese who talk to them as “barbarian handlers”: polished, English-speaking political appointees, usually intelligence officers, whose uniforms have never been crumpled or muddied .

||1:美国和中国的官员正在更好地了解彼此。||2:近年来，两国军事院校之间的交流、港口互访和高层互访成倍增加。||3:但巨大鸿沟仍然存在。||4:很多互动都是流于表面。||5:美国官员经常把和他们交谈的中国人描述为“野蛮的操纵者”: 圆滑、精通英语的政治任命官员，通常是情报官员，制服从来都是整洁干净。

||1:The bidding escalated in the battle for Sky, Britain’s premier subscription-TV broadcaster.||2:A day after 21st Century Fox submitted a proposal that valued Sky at 24.5bn pounds ($32.5bn), Comcast upped its offer, to 26bn pounds.||3:Fox is bidding for the 61% of shares in Sky it doesn’t already own in order to sell the lot to Disney, along with Fox’s other entertainment assets.||4:Comcast has muddied the waters with a rival offer for Fox’s assets.

||1:争夺英国最大的付费电视运营商——天空广播公司(Sky)的竞标升级。||2:在21世纪福克斯公司提交了一份245亿英镑(合325亿美元)的报价后，第二天康卡斯特上调报价至260亿英镑。||3:福克斯正在竞购尚未到手的天空广播公司的61%股份，以便将这部分股份与福克斯其他娱乐资产一起出售给迪斯尼。||4:康卡斯特(Comcast)对福克斯(Fox)的资产提出了竞争性收购要约，让局面变得扑朔迷离。

The Lisbon treaty mischievously muddied the process:

里斯本条约反而把进程变得更加模棱两可：

The dirt of the title represents the final, violent sequence between Galen and his mother. But filth lies all over this novel: the tantalising young cousin who abuses Galen and then sleeps with him; the mother who adores and abhors the boy she brought into the world;|| and ultimately the muddied and muddled mind of Galen himself.||

书名丑事，暗含伽林和他妈之间注定的、暴力的结局。但是肮脏始终贯穿小说：诱人犯罪的表妹虐待伽林，并跟他上床；老妈对儿子是既爱又恨，恨的是他老爸当初怎么没把他射到墙上；最后是浑浑噩噩的伽林自己，一团糟。

Nor, in most cases, have the hoped-for biological markers turned up—and to the extent that they have, they have muddied the waters, rather than clarifying them.

在大多数情况下，期望的生物学标记并未被发现，从某种程度而言，已发现的生物学标记把水越搅越浑，而不是越搅越清。

Mr Walker himself has muddied the waters by exempting police and firemen from the cutbacks and restrictions.

Walker先生自己也因豁免警察和救火队员免受削减费用和一些限制而搅混了这摊水。

But in China, given its stage of development, those distinctions become pretty muddied .

但是，在中国囿于其发展阶段，国企和民企之间的界限模糊。

Accountability is further muddied by the presence of communist party officials who can call the shots from below board level.

共产党官员可以从董事会之下的层面上发号施令，令问责制更加模糊不清。

Accountants also suggest that the evolution of financial reporting might have muddied the waters.

会计师们还暗示，财务报表的演进可能也把水搅得更混。

The issue is further muddied by different currencies: the renminbi for Shanghai and Shenzhen, and the Hong Kong dollar.

计价币种的不同使问题变得更加混乱：沪深交易所使用人民币，香港使用港元。

For nearly three hours, Weber picked out gravel and debris from the woman’s hair and emptied buckets of muddied rinse water.

她用了整整三个小时把这位女子头发中的碎石和杂物捡出来，换掉了一桶又一桶的混浊的水。

4A muddied Gart Kamon, an Army specialist, is part of the coalition effort to help Afghan troops take control of restive Kunar province.

满身是泥的噶特卡门，军队专家，努力帮助阿富汗军队控制不安宁的库纳尔省。

For too long, he says, American politics were muddied by geography.

他说，美国政治曾经长期陷入地缘主义。

They account for many of the missteps that have recently slowed the company’s momentum and muddied its reputation.

它们在那些最近拖累公司的前进势头和使其名声受损的失误中起到了很大的作用。

Today, even regulated terms like “Healthy” and “Contains Antioxidants” have become muddied .

现今，连“健康”和“含有抗氧化剂”这些法定的术语，都已经被各种说法混淆了。

Almost as pressing a question, and one also muddied by nationality, is whether to carry on with the bond purchases.

也常与国籍问题混在一起的同样紧急的问题，是继续购买债券与否。

Causation and mere correlation often get muddied in studies like this, but either way, a sexy voice at least appears to sell the goods.

因果关系和相互联系往往在这类试验中是难以分清。但不论如何，至少有一副性感的声音是优势。

Here a girl washes her muddied sandals along a dirty water canal in the Nairobi slum of Kibera on March 21.

这是3月21日内罗毕贫民窟基拉贝区的一个小女孩在脏水沟冲洗她凉鞋上的泥土。

Of course, the picture is muddied by the vast changes that religion went through in the journey from tribal dancing to Anglican hymns.

宗教的形式从部族舞蹈到新教圣歌发生了巨大的变化，我们很难了解其发展历程的全貌。