Bungle
['bʌŋg(ə)l] or ['bʌŋɡl]
解释:
(v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
(v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
(n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
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同义词及近义词：
v. n. Do any thing clumsily.
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解释:
n. anything clumsily done: a gross blunder.—v.i. to act in a clumsy awkward manner.—v.t. to make or mend clumsily: to manage awkwardly.—p.adj. Bung′led done clumsily.—n. Bung′ler.—p.adj. Bung′ling clumsy awkward: unskilfully or ill done.—adv. Bung′lingly.
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例句:
- I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Paul, who was unused to him and his impulses, would naturally have bungled at this offer--declined accepting the same--et cetera. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We say to the man who is tired of life that if he bungles we propose to make this world still less attractive by clapping him into jail. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It has either presented the business man with money or harassed him with bungling enthusiasm in the pretended interests of the consumer. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Nevertheless she was a great favourite with the men, and would make fifty conquests while Julia was bungling with one. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- His managers, who were all rare men, were no more expensive than the old bungling fools of his father's days, who were merely colliers promoted. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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