mizzle
/ˈmɪz.əl/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈmɪz.əl/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈmi-zəl/ (ame, mw)
mizzle — 名詞
1. a fall of tiny water droplets between heavy mist and an outright shower — too th
毛毛雨
比霧重、比雨輕的細小水滴
a fall of tiny water droplets between heavy mist and an outright shower — too thin to need an umbrella but enough to soak your jacket if you stay out long.
Emre cycled home through a steady mizzle that fogged his glasses.
Emre 騎車回家，一路上的毛毛雨把他的眼鏡都霧住了。
uncountable: a steady mizzle
A cold mizzle drifted across the moor as the hikers reached the summit.
登山客抵達山頂時，一陣寒冷的毛毛雨飄過荒原。
collocation: cold / fine mizzle drifts
By morning the mizzle had soaked the laundry Trang left on the line.
到了早上，毛毛雨已經把 Trang 晾在線上的衣服都浸濕了。
Ayesha pulled her hood up against the mizzle blowing in from the sea.
Ayesha 拉起兜帽，擋住從海面吹來的毛毛雨。
There was a thin mizzle falling when Felix opened the back door.
Felix 打開後門時，外頭正下著一陣稀疏的毛毛雨。
- drizzle
the standard, more common term across both British and American English
- mist
tinier droplets that hang in the air rather than fall; usually doesn't wet you
- Scotch mist
British informal — a very fine drizzle with low cloud, often in upland areas
- downpour
heavy, hard rain — the opposite end of the rainfall scale
- cloudburst
a sudden, violent fall of rain
文法句型
mass noun
用法筆記
Mostly British and Scottish dialect; in standard American writing 'drizzle' covers the same weather. Treat as uncountable — say 'a mizzle' or 'some mizzle', never 'mizzles'.
常見錯誤
mizzle — 動詞
- mizzlepresent simple I / you / we / they
- mizzles3rd person singular
- mizzling-ing form
- mizzledpast simple
1. (of the weather) to send down very small water droplets — lighter than ordinary
下毛毛雨
天空飄落極細的雨滴
(of the weather) to send down very small water droplets — lighter than ordinary rain but more than a passing mist, the kind of weather you only notice once your hair starts to feel damp.
It had been mizzling all morning, so Élise carried her umbrella to the bakery anyway.
一整個早上都在下毛毛雨，Élise 還是帶著雨傘去了麵包店。
weather it: it + mizzle + duration
By the time Lucía reached the bus stop, it was mizzling heavily enough to fog her phone screen.
Lucía 走到公車站時，毛毛雨已經下得能把她的手機螢幕霧化了。
intransitive + adverb of degree
It mizzled softly across the harbour while the fishermen mended their nets.
漁夫們補網的時候，港口上空輕輕地飄著毛毛雨。
Whenever it mizzles in October, the village paths turn slick under a layer of fallen leaves.
每逢十月下毛毛雨，村裡的小徑就會被落葉鋪得滑溜溜的。
It started to mizzle just as Kenji unlocked his bicycle outside the library.
Kenji 在圖書館外解開腳踏車鎖時，剛好開始下起毛毛雨。
- pour
to rain very heavily — the opposite intensity
- bucket down
British informal for heavy rain
文法句型
it + mizzles
用法筆記
Almost always takes weather 'it' as subject; a personal subject sounds wrong ('the sky mizzled' is poetic at best). Distinguish from sense 2 (verb/2 'leave suddenly') by context — weather verbs do not take a human agent.
常見錯誤
2. to slip away without warning, usually to avoid a duty, a bill, or an awkward goo
溜走；開溜
悄悄離開以避責任或尷尬
to slip away without warning, usually to avoid a duty, a bill, or an awkward goodbye — a dated British slang use, much like 'do a runner' or 'scarper'.
Femi mizzled out the side door as soon as the choir practice ran past nine.
唱詩班練習一過九點，Femi 就從側門溜走了。
mizzle + out + direction phrase
The lodger had mizzled by Sunday, leaving two months' rent unpaid on the kitchen table.
那位房客到了星期天就已經開溜，留下兩個月的房租沒付在廚房桌上。
past perfect: had mizzled (avoidance context)
Christopher quietly mizzled from the meeting before anyone could ask him a question.
在還沒有人來得及問他問題之前，Christopher 就悄悄從會議上溜走了。
Piotr mizzled off down the lane the moment the police car pulled into the yard.
警車一開進院子，Piotr 就沿著小路溜走了。
By the time the bill arrived, Lien had already mizzled to catch the last train.
等帳單送來的時候，Lien 已經溜去趕最後一班火車了。
- scarper
British slang — flee, especially to dodge trouble; same register as mizzle
- abscond
formal/legal — leave secretly, often with money or to escape custody
- do a runner
British informal idiom — leave to avoid paying or being caught
- skedaddle
old-fashioned informal — depart hurriedly, often playful in tone
- stay
remain where you are rather than slipping off
- face the music
stay and accept the consequences instead of fleeing
文法句型
mizzle + off
mizzle + away
用法筆記
Strongly informal and dated; today readers usually meet it in older British novels or regional speech. Distinguish from verb/1 (the weather sense) by the presence of a human subject and an adverb of direction ('off', 'out', 'away').