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 2月 24, 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，頁號 468，列號 1:
- 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; “bungle, v.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- ↑ “bungle, n.”, OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2019; “bungle, n.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
