Blunder
['blʌndə] or ['blʌndɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
(v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
(v. t.) To cause to blunder.
(v. t.) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
(n.) Confusion; disturbance.
(n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
整理:凯瑟琳
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Mistake (grossly), err (from want of care), make a bull.
n. Mistake (of the grossest kind), error (from thoughtlessness), gross mistake, bull.
手打:奥斯伯特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Error, mistake, misunderstanding, fault, oversight, inaccuracy, delusion, slip
ANT:Accuracy, truthfulness, exactness, correctness, faultlessness, ratification,atonement, foresight, prevention, hit, success, achievement, correction
布伦特校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to make a gross mistake to flounder about: to utter thoughtlessly.—n. a gross mistake.—p.adj. Blun′dering apt to make gross mistakes: apt to stumble.—To blunder away to throw away some opportunity or advantage.
校對:洛丽塔
例句/造句/用法:
- In 1808 he committed a very serious blunder. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now, jump in, and let us see if I can repair the consequences of my own blunder. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is possible this latter blunder may have been made by Bragg having become confused as to what was going on on our side. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Except this trifling interruption, your little piece has gone off without a single accident or blunder; so be calm, man! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- You _are_ afraid--your self-love dreads a blunder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Hideous, abhorrent, base blunder! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of ours in love with the lady. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He always admitted his blunders, and extenuated those of officers under him beyond what they were entitled to. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- For there are, I believe, blunders in our political thinking which confuse fictitious activity with genuine achievement, and make it difficult for men to know where they should enlist. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- HE would get on well enough if she'd let him alone; they like his slang and his brag and his blunders. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- In common conversation he seems to have no choice of words; he hesitates and blunders; and yet, good God, how he writes! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- To make it an avowed ideal--a thing of will and intelligence--is to hasten its coming, to illumine its blunders, and, by giving it self-criticism, to convert mistakes into wisdom. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She was vexed to see that, in spite of so many years of vigilance, she had blundered twice within five minutes. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I am too stupid to learn, I blundered out, as red as a peony. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- If others have blundered, it is your place to put them right, and shew them what true delicacy is. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- If the world were going to remain frigidly set after next year, we might well thank our stars if we blundered into a few decent solutions right away. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Miss Crawford blundered most towards Fanny herself in her intentions to please. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Jo blundered into a wrong message in one of your Father's letters, and I made her tell me. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They ought to have told me, and not let me go blundering and scolding, when I should have been more kind and patient than ever. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Both smooth heads were alike beaming, blundering, and bumpy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- And it is true that our knowledge of those needs and the technique of their satisfaction is hazy, unorganized and blundering. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The very breathing of the figure was contemptible, as it laboured and rattled in that operation, like a blundering clock. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The world was not so stupid and blundering after all: now and then a stroke of luck came to the unluckiest. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Who was the blundering idiot who said that fine words butter no parsnips? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Life was too stupid, too blundering! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
校對:史蒂文