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- a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles霾, 阴霾。
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- a very tenuous cloud of something such as vapour or smoke in the air薄雾:
a faint haze of steam.
淡淡一层气雾。
1.2
- in sing. figurative a state of mental obscurity or confusion〈喻〉懵懂, 迷糊:
through an alcoholic haze.
透过醉酒的迷糊状态。
with obj.
- obscure with a haze因薄雾而使变得朦胧:
a clump of islands, very green, but hazed in cloud and mist.
连片的小岛群, 郁郁葱葱, 但在云雾中显得朦朦胧胧。
词源
early 18th cent. (originally denoting fog or hoar frost): probably a back-formation from HAZY.
N. Amer. <北美>
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- with obj. force (a new recruit in the military or a potential recruit to a university fraternity) to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks欺弄新生(或新兵)(强迫做繁重、危险或丢脸之事):
rookies were mercilessly hazed.
新兵们被无情地折腾。
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- with obj. and adverbial of direction drive (cattle) in a specified direction while on horseback骑马赶(牛)。
词源
late 17th cent. (originally Scots and dialect in the sense 'frighten, scold, or beat'): perhaps related to obsolete French haser 'tease or insult'.