muck

• n. 淤泥；垃圾；肥料；品质低劣的东西
• vt. 弄脏；施肥；清除…的污物
• vi. 闲逛；鬼混
• n. (Muck)人名；(德、匈、捷)穆克

来自古英语muk,牛粪，粪肥，来自PIE*smeug,meug,黏的，滑的，词源同mucus,muggy.

muck

muck: [13] The original meaning of muck is ‘excrement’; the more general ‘dirt’ is a 14thcentury development. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *muk-, *meuk- ‘soft’. This was also the source of Danish møg ‘dung’ (which provides the first syllable of midden [14], a borrowing from the ancestor of Danish mødding, literally ‘dung-heap’). The same Germanic base lies behind English meek [12], whose immediate Old Norse antecedent mjúkr meant ‘soft, pliant’ – leading on in due course to English ‘submissive’.
=> meek, midden

muck (n.)

mid-13c., "cow dung and vegetable matter spread as manure," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse myki, mykr "cow dung," Danish møg; from Proto-Germanic *muk-, *meuk- "soft." Meaning "unclean matter generally" is from c. 1300. Muck-sweat first attested 1690s.

muck (v.)

late 14c., "to dig in the ground," also "to remove manure," early 15c., "to spread manure, cover with muck," from muck (n.). Meaning "to make dirty" is from 1832; in the figurative sense, "to make a mess of," it is from 1886; to muck about "mess around" is from 1856. Related: Mucked; mucking.

1. The Prime Minister ac-cused opposition leaders of muck-raking.

首相指控反对党领袖传播丑闻。

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2. This congealed muck was interfering with the filter.

这团凝固的污物堵塞了过滤器。

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3. Here's how to muck out.

就这样清扫。

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4. He could smell muck and clean fresh hay.

他能闻到粪臭和清新的干草味。

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5. He stamped off to muck out the pigsty.

他去打扫猪圈了。

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