1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]SPEAK A LANGUAGE to speak unclearly without separating your words or sounds correctly 含糊不清地说(话)
slur your words/speech
She was slurring her words as if she was drunk.
她好像喝醉了似的,说话含糊不清。
His voice sounded slurred.
他的声音听起来含混不清。
2.[transitiveT]CRITICIZE to criticize someone or something unfairly 诽谤,诋毁
3.[transitiveT]APM to play a group of musicalnotes smoothly together 连奏
Examples from the Corpus
slur• After just a couple of drinks, she starts to slur.• Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.• Her speech was ever so slightly slurred and her eyes seemed to swim in and out of focus.• Much of her memory is gone, her speech is slurred, and she suffersseizures.• The voice was the same: clear and authoritative, sure of itself, although faintly slurred by alcohol.• Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.• When Lionel is tired he tends to slur his words.• He was laughing, his voice slurred with reds.
slur your words/speech• She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support.• Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.
cast ... slur on• How dare the hon. Gentlemancast a slur on the trainingarrangements currently in place in this country?• With intense anger, I repeat, how dare she cast a slur on my character?
Originslur1
1. (1700-1800) Probably from Low Germanslurrn“to shuffle”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SLUR | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤racial, racist, sexual種族歧視言論;性別歧視言論▸➤anti-gay, anti-Semitic, etc.反同性戀、反猶太人等的言論VERB + SLUR➤cast, make詆譭;中傷◇The comments cast a slur on her character.那些評論詆譭了她的人格。◇He had made a series of racial slurs.他發表過一系列種族歧視的言論。PREPOSITION➤slur against, slur on對⋯的詆譭◇The joke was seen as a slur against the mentally ill.那個笑話被看作是對精神病患者的侮辱。◇a slur on his good name對他良好聲譽的中傷