| 单词 | bungle |
| 释义 | bungle (once / 2469 pages) vn Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, dropping something, tripping and falling: these are some classic bungles — and they’re always embarrassing. Bungles are bummers, it’s true. Ever said something awkward in front of a grandparent or dropped a cake on someone’s lap? Those are bungles — accidents that make you blush. Bungle can also be used as a verb when someone acts like a fool or simply messes everything up, as in “The teacher bungled her lecture because she left her notes at home,” or “My bungling dad fell into the punch bowl. Again.” WORD FAMILYbungle: bungled, bungler, bungles, bunglesome, bungling+/bungler: bunglers/bungling: bunglingly USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps Melania Trump’s decision to stay in New York for her son’s schooling was prompted by Jackie Kennedy’s advice not to “bungle raising your children.” Time(Dec 22, 2016) It’s a clever enough conceit, doomed by a bungled meet cute. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) Though Indians have until the end of the year to swap their defunct bills, the roll-out of new ones has been bungled. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) 1v make a mess of, destroy, or ruin Syn|Hyper ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil fail, go wrong, miscarry be unsuccessful 2v spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly I bungled it! Hyper act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself 3n an embarrassing mistake Syn|Hypo|Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, pratfall bobble the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball spectaclea blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bulla serious and ludicrous blunder fumble, muff(sports) dropping the ball fluffa blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecisma socially awkward or tactless act howlera glaring blunder clangera conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate misstep, stumble, trip, trip-upan unintentional but embarrassing blunder error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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