bungle
英语
编辑词源
编辑动词词源不详,有可能:[1]
- 最终是拟声词(对比bumble (“笨手笨脚;犯错,出错”)、fumble (“笨拙地摸索;犯错”));或
- 源自古諾爾斯語,对比古瑞典語 bunga (“击打”),方言瑞典語 bangla (“做无用功”)。
名词派生自动词。[2]
发音
编辑动词
编辑bungle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 bungles,現在分詞 bungling,一般過去時及過去分詞 bungled)
- (及物) (笨手笨脚,不熟练地)做;(因为不熟练,没有能力而)搞砸,弄糟
- 近義詞:參見Thesaurus:spoil
- 1821年2月24日, Lord Byron, “Extracts from a Diary of Lord Byron, 1821”, 出自 Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: […], Frankfurt am Main: […] H. L. Brönner, 出版於 1830, →OCLC,第 468 頁,第 1 列:
- I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; and have so repeated to them (some of the Chiefs here) half an hour ago.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (不及物) 笨手笨脚,失误连连;搞砸
- 近義詞:blunder
变位
编辑bungle的變位
衍生词汇
编辑- bungled (形容词)
- bungler
- bunglery (罕用)
- bunglesome
- bunglingly
- bungling (形容词、名詞)
名词
编辑bungle (複數 bungles)
- 笨手笨脚造成的失误,错误
- Template:RQ:More Antidote
- Template:RQ:Marryat Peter Simple
- 1888, Henry Lawson, United Division (essay):
- The Soudan bungle was born partly of sentimental loyalty and partly of the aforementioned jealousy existing between the colonies, and now at a time when the colonies should club closer together our Government is doing all they can to widen the breach by trying to pass a bill enabling New South Wales to monopolise the name "Australia".
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
参考资料
编辑- ↑ “bungle, v.”,OED Online ,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,December 2021年; “bungle, v.”,Lexico,Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press,2019–present年.
- ↑ “bungle, n.”,OED Online ,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,June 2019年; “bungle, n.”,Lexico,Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press,2019–present年.