Jumble

(noun.) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie.

(verb.) assemble without order or sense; 'She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence'.

(verb.) be all mixed up or jumbled together; 'His words jumbled'.

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• There was that jumble in my thoughts and recollections, that I had lost the clear arrangement of time and distance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• A CHAIR There was a jumble market every Monday afternoon in the old market-place in town. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In some visits to the Jumble his attention had been attracted to this boy Hexam. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But now he can only whisper, and what he whispers sounds like what it is--mere jumble and jargon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It's very funny when well done, and makes a perfect jumble of tragical comical stuff to laugh over. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To be sure, the charade, with its ready witbut then the soft eyesin fact it suited neither; it was a jumble without taste or truth. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• If I've got some of his wise ideas jumbled up with my romance, so much the better for me. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Confessedly our account of the newer Pal?olithic is a jumbled account. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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