muffled

１．今日の単語は muffled です。オンライン会議などで使えそう。

Girl, 19, almost died after being spiked and friends had to keep heart going – An aspiring police officer says friends were forced to give her CPR for 20 minutes after she was ‘spiked’ in a nightclub – but says police and medics treated her as ‘just another drunk student’ by refusing to run tests. Rhiannon Smith, from Rhyl says she drank three single vodka Red Bulls at Alpine Club Lodge in Ormskirk, Lancashire, on October 22nd when her hearing suddenly became muffled and the room began spinning. When the 19-year-old was taken home by friends she claims they saw her lips were blue, her pulse had ‘stopped’ and she was only taking breaths every 20 seconds, so called 999. (from Wales Online)

こういう表現はパッと出てこないことが多い。覚えておくと便利かも。

Is our creativity being muffled by googling? STEM is the way to go – Would Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist whose genius eternally changed the way we view space and time, have made his discoveries if he were in the age of computers? Would Isaac Newton wonder to himself why an apple falls and if the moon too does fall if he had an account to keep him busy on Instagram? Can we be as curious, and thus as explorative, with social media and other forms of technology that perennially occupy our minds? (from the Standard)

グーグルもネットも超便利。私たちの創造性が阻害されるでしょうか。

I could hear muffled voices next door but couldn’t make out any words.

なんとなくぼそぼそ聞こえるけど、何を言っているかはわからない

The muffled roar of traffic could be heard in the distance.

遠くで車の行きかう音が聞こえていたけど、はっきりではない。

2. 英英辞典と英和辞典の意味を確認しておきましょう

A muffled sound is quiet or not clear

If you are muffled, you are wearing a lot of heavy clothes so that very little of your body or face is visible.

〔音・声が壁などによって〕弱められた、はっきり聞こえない

今日の単語は

muffled こもった

でした

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