2019-08-01 wooly

英英释义：confused and not clear.

我们熟悉的意思是“像羊毛的”，其实它也常用来表示“（想法等）不清楚的、模糊的、混乱的”，常常用来可以替换 confused/vague/not clear 等词.

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1. His ideas/arguments are a bit wooly. 

2. The startup is wooly about how it will achieve its goals.

3. Despite the wooly thinking behind it, the book soon hit the bestseller list.

4. This means law-making can be tediously slow and often ends in a wooly compromise.

5. Activists say that the wooly definition of extremist material and the severe sentences encourage abuse. 

6. Democrats are vulnerable to accusations by Mr Trump that they are soft on defence and wooly on protecting American interests. 

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 我真受不了那些头脑混乱的政客！

I cannot stand those woolly politicians.

参考翻译：I can't stomach these wooly-minded politicians!