英语释义

1. to grind or mix thoroughly pulverize
mull a portion of the pigment with the oil
— H. J. Wolfe

2. to consider at length ponder —often used with over
mulled over his choicesIt's a fine offer, but we need time to mull it over.

3. meditate, ponder
all his talk of mulling and weighing and balancing was vacillation
— J. P. Marquand

4. to heat, sweeten, and flavor (a beverage, such as wine or cider) with spices

5. a soft fine sheer fabric of cotton, silk, or rayon

6. friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath

7. a finely powdered solid especially in a suspension

8. island of western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides area 351 square miles (913 square kilometers), population 1499

9. to think about slowly and carefully ponder
I thought of the words. I mulled them over in my mind.
— Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

10. to grind or mix thoroughly (as in a mortar) pulverize
the alloy, after removal from the amalgamator, was mulled in the palm of the hand
— Journal of American Dental Association

11. an ointment of high melting point intended to be spread on muslin or mull and used like a plaster
zinc mull

片语

Teresa Mulling标签

mulling agent研糊剂

mull over仔细考虑

Mulling g蒸湿鞋面

mulling room发酵室

Mulling machine蒸湿机

sand mulling练砂

Rick Mulling标签

Mulling Teresa名称

mulling ratio混合比

英汉例句

• yahoo has been struggling so much that its board is mulling whether to sell all or part of the company.

  因广告业务运作一直很艰难，雅虎董事会在讨论是否需要将公司部分或整个卖出去。

• central bankers have cut interest rates, governments have agreed to strip toxic assets out of banks, and regulators are mulling how to directly inject capital into the banking sector.

  各国央行纷纷下调利率，政府也同意将问题资产从银行中剥离出来，而政府监管机构则在考虑如何向银行业直接注资。

• she gave me these oldtextbooks to go through and i spent hours mulling through them.

  她给我看的那些旧课本儿，足足花费了我好几个小时研读呢。

• when was the last time you spent an hour mulling the world out a window, or rereading a favourite book?

  你最后一次趴在窗子上观察外面的世界，或者重读一遍最喜欢的书是什么时候？

• one way to check if something is worth mulling over is to ask yourself this question: 「will this matter in one year’s time?

  一种去检验这个事情是否值得去想的方法就是问自己：“一年后我还会在意这个事情么？ 三年后呢？

• zuckerberg said it was important for facebook to succeed in china and has been mulling over the right strategy. zuckerberg has also been preparing in other ways.

  他还说，facebook在中国取得成功非常重要，公司一直以来都在仔细考虑正确的战略。扎克伯格已经在其他方面开始着手準备。

• i jump out of bed, my mind already mulling over the various projects i want to complete.

  一跳下床，头脑就已经开始考虑各种各样我想完成的项目。

• to boost investment, the government is mulling a cut in corporate income tax and other tax changes.

  为了促进投资，政府正在考虑削减企业所得税，以及改变其它税收。

• according to a report from tech blog boy genius report, bradley has been mulling over his departure from the company for months.

  据科技博客boygeniusreport的一篇报道称，布拉德利认真考虑离职事宜已有数月之久。

• you’d be stuck contemplating the mass of idling cars, a mental exercise that is much less pleasant than dreaming about a beach and much less useful than mulling what to do once you get off the road.

  史默伍德博士说：“人们认为心不在焉是件坏事，但是如果我们在做无聊工作的时候不能出神一下 那生活将会太可怕了。」 明尼苏达大学心理学家、该领域先驱者之一埃里克 科林格认为：「想象一下 如果你的精神不能从交通阻塞中解脱出来，你会在这受困的汽车大军中苦思冥想，智力锻炼没有幻想着海滩来得那么愉快，也没有思考着驶离公路后干什么来得有用。

• according to high-placed pakistanis, the army, flushed by its recent successes, has been mulling such a move for some time.

  据位居高位的巴基斯坦人员表示，由于受最近成功的振奋，该军队考虑这一举动已有一段时间了。

• while there are almost no intact, full bottles or cans left, a few people were still mulling around the opened containers and piles of bottles scattered around the brewery on tuesday.

  虽然没剩下什么完好无损、未被打开的瓶子或罐子，但周二依然有人在散落于酒厂附近的被打开的容器和一堆堆酒瓶周围转悠。

• a consortium of oil companies has felt obliged to pledge $30m, while a group of donors led by a un agency is also mulling over a donation.

  一个石油公司国际财团认为应向尼方提供3000万美元的援助，同时，由联合国机构牵头发动的一些捐赠方也在仔细考虑是否提供捐赠。

• for years, the pope’s officials have been mulling over what to do about anglican splinter groups which sought to join the catholic church as a body.

  多年以来，教皇的官员们都在仔细考虑怎样处置圣公会分离出来那些的一心想加入天主教的组织。

• virgin’s sir richard branson, for example, is said to be mulling the idea of a european high-speed rail service, and deutsche bahn would like its trains to link london to cologne.

  例如维珍的老板理查德-布兰森爵士，据说正在考虑欧洲高速铁路服务计划，德国联邦铁路想要它们的列车连接伦敦和科隆。

• they are mulling over legislation to enact elements of the commission’s plan to stabilise the debt over the long haul by curbing entitlements and closing tax loopholes.

  他们正仔细考虑通过立法颁布一项委员会的计划，旨在通过控制政府津贴以及消除税收漏洞的方法稳定长期债务。

• glencore, the world’s biggest commodity trader, may be about to confirm the industry’s allure: rumours are flying that it is mulling an investment in ks oils, an indian edible-oil firm.

  全球最大商品交易商(瑞士)嘉能可国际公司将向人们证实该行业的吸引力有多强：坊间盛传该公司正在考虑投资印度食用油企业“ks食用油公司」。

• now the couple is mulling the next move in light of dwindling alternatives and resources.

  面对正在缩小的可选做法和资源现在这对夫妇正在思忖下一步怎么走。

• at the time, australia, canada, france, germany, italy, the european union, and the united stateswere all mulling new policies to constrain swfs' access to their markets.

  那时，澳大利亚、加拿大、法国、德国、意大利和欧盟还有美国都在考虑制定新的政策制止主权基金进入他们的市场。

• it was a problem he had been mulling for a long time.

  这是他一直反复考虑了很久的问题。

• while i was mulling it all over, we moved on to a discussion about how to achieve the deficit reduction we needed.

  当我还在仔细琢磨这一见解时，会议继续进行，我们已开始讨论如何完成我们必须完成的削减财政赤字任务。

• for the moment he remains party leader and first minister, but his party is quietly mulling over whether he is the man to lead it into the assembly election.

  虽然他目前还是政党领导人及北爱尔兰首席部长，他的政党也在暗忖他是否能够领导政党进入大会选举。

• both men are mulling running.

  这两个男人都在反复琢磨是否参加了竞选。

• but nerves have been rattled at the company’s headquarters in silicon valley, where bosses are mulling over how to respond.

  公司在硅谷的总部已经陷入慌乱之中，老板们仔细考虑着如何应对这次事件。

• officials at the ministry of economy and planning are mulling over whether to introduce greater flexibility to other activities, by using co-operatives, say.

  经济暨企划部官员正在仔细考虑是否将更大的弹性藉由使用合作社引进至其它活动。

• and plan ahead. a rushed writer is rarely as persuasive as one who has had mulling time.

  早作打算，一个赶稿的写手很少能够像一个仔细推敲的人那样具有说服力。