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To rumple something is to mess it so it is no longer smooth or neat — usually clothes, sheets, or hair. You rumple a shirt by it in a bag; a child rumples a parent’s hair with both hands; a nap rumples the bed. It is a small, verb: the thing is not torn and not dirty, just , with soft folds and creases. Though actually, rumple is a little gentler than crumple. Crumple often sounds like a hard crush, paper in a fist; rumple sounds like fabric or hair that has been slept in or played with. You can rumple something on purpose, for a casual look, or without meaning to. Ordinary English, not fancy. In real life you will see the -ed form rumpled even more than the verb itself.
弄皺、弄亂(頭髮、衣服、床單)
組成From Middle English rimplen, “to become wrinkled”. People compare it with German rumpeln (to make a din) and Dutch rommelen (to rumble) — those cousins are about noise, which sits a little oddly next to our “make clothes untidy” meaning.
同家族的字
- rumpledthe -ed form: hair or clothes that have already been rumpled
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Rumplename
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A surname.
rumpleverb/ˈɹʌmpəl/
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To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
- I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
- They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
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To muss; to tousle.
rumplenoun/ˈɹʌmpəl/
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A wrinkle.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。