murk

• n. 黑暗；陰沉，陰郁
• adj. 陰郁的；黑暗的
• n. (Murk)人名；(德)穆爾克

來自PIE*mer,閃光，閃爍，詞源同morning,morrow.引申詞義昏暗，黑暗。

murk (n)

c. 1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr "darkness," from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo- (cognates: Old English mirce "murky, black, dark; murkiness, darkness," Danish m?rk "darkness," Old Saxon mirki "dark"); cognate with Old Church Slavonic mraku, Serbo-Croatian mrak, Russian mrak "darkness;" Lithuanian merkti "shut the eyes, blink," from PIE *mer- "to flicker" (see morn). Murk Monday was long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29, 1652 (April 8, New Style).

1. All of a sudden a tall old man in a black cloak loomed out of the murk.

一位身著黑斗篷的高個(gè)兒老者突然從暗處閃了出來。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Longing for full knowledge, one must chart route through the murk of unknowing.

有時(shí)由于渴望取得全面了解, 還必須在一片無知的混沌之中開出一條路子來.

來自辭典例句