bungle
英语
词源
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
- 源自古诺尔斯语，对比古瑞典语 bunga (“击打”)，方言瑞典语 bangla (“做无用功”)。
名词派生自动词。[2]
发音
动词
bungle（第三人称单数简单现在时 bungles，现在分词 bungling，一般过去时及过去分词 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
- 近义词： 参见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，出版年份1830, OCLC 1190985245, 页号468, column 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.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- (不及物) 笨手笨脚，失误连连；搞砸
- 近义词： blunder
- Template:RQ:More Complete Poems
- Template:RQ:Dickens Bleak House
变位
bungle的变位
衍生词汇
- bungled (形容词)
- bungler
- bunglery (罕用)
- bunglesome
- bunglingly
- bungling (形容词, 名词)
名词
bungle（复数 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".
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
参考资料
- ↑ “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.
