blurring [
blɚ]
[计] 模糊, 混乱, 斑点多
- A defect of focus, such as blurring in an image.
像差焦点不准确而造成的物像模糊 - Everything become a blur when you travel beyond a certain speed.
当你超过一定的速度行进时,一切都变得模模糊糊的。 - The houses appeared as a blur in the mist.
那些房子在雾中显得一片模糊。
Blur \Blur\ (bl[^u]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blurred} (bl[^u]rd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Blurring}.] [Prob. of same origin as blear.
See {Blear}.]
1. To render obscure by making the form or outline of
confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make
indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by
handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a
woodcut by an excess of ink.
But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor
Which then he wore. --Shak.
2. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare.
--J. R. Drake.
3. To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
Sarcasms may eclipse thine own,
But can not blur my lost renown. --Hudibras.
Syn: To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.
- "But it's not that disturbing," he says, "because the line between the public and private sectors is blurring.
- The special has infuriated some ad industry executives, who charge that it represented a new low in blurring the line between programming and advertising.
- Perhaps more important, however, is the concern that White House accommodation is blurring the distinction between the two parties, with dangerous implications for Republicans in 1988.
- Lines between telemarketing and traditional marketing are fast blurring, says a Conference Board report.
- Rain washes away the gypsum, blurring the sculptural details.
- They have charged this would constitute "Russification," a derogatory term for the Russian majority's blurring of ethnic lines.
- The consequence has been that there has been a significant blurring of the roles of the IMF and the World Bank.
- The furrows in the abandoned corn fields are blurring as the scrub takes over. Then there is the debris, contaminated beyond recovery.
- Engineers who spent years designing and manufacturing the mirrors now blamed for blurring the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the universe scrambled Thursday to figure out what went wrong.
- Odyssey is among the investment firms newly blurring the line between management-endorsed leveraged buy-outs and hostile takeover transactions.
- If one party finds its electoral interest in blurring the issues, the other party is stupid not to sharpen them.
- These services are blurring the lines between print and electronic publishing.
- The apparent weak point in Sullivan's approach is that it relies on blurring the line between lying to Congress and avoiding Congress.
- Like that measure, it is creating new political alliances, blurring the traditional distinctions between liberal and conservative.
- Despite the grumbling, workers have accepted flexibility and the blurring of job barriers, issues at the heart of the Ford strike.
- But Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after an emergency summit in November, made it plain that Britain was not anxious for a rapid blurring of East-West lines in Germany.
- Then, Bush opened the door to a tax increase as part of his budget summit with Congress _ blurring partisan lines.
- Mr Clinton could tell him a thing or two about blurring a track record for straight dealing. The temptation for Labour is to see the government's present embarrassment as a chance to score points.
- That blurring of the roles of interviewer, hostage negotiator and free-lance diplomat fits the pattern of a Persian Gulf crisis in which television is part of the weaponry.