| 单词 | botching in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbotching in The action or an act of botching something (in various senses of the verb). Also in botching up, botching in.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > clumsily botching1465 bodging1572 patchery1579 tinkering1591 cobblinga1764 1465 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. ccxcix (MED) J bochyng axs..xv wedchys, j chesell. a1535 J. Fisher Spirituall Consol. (?1578) sig. B.j O corruptible body which..dayly needeth reprations and botching vp with meate and drinke. 1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. D4v Botchings vp of old, decayed, and weather-beaten Faces. 1686 Sanderson's XXXVI Serm. 392 The botching in of a course shred into a fine garment. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 98 That patching and botching with Solder. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 158 I set to Work a Taylering, or rather indeed a Botching. 1825 Examiner 6 June 351/1 How much better would it be, instead of this botching and contriving,..to substitute for the present frightful mass of statute and common law, a comprehensive Code? 1866 J. Ruskin Ethics of Dust v. 87 All doubt, and repenting, and botching, and retouching, and wondering what it will be best to do next, are vice, as well as misery. 1931 E. Linklater Ben Jonson & King James xviii. 220 Mishap and private ruin, failure and botching. 1997 R. Coles Moral Intelligence Children ii. ii. 115 An earnest botching up of a child's moral education at the hands of parents. 2003 J. Gillingham European Integration, 1950–2003 iv. 480 The botching of Enlargement is the worst mistake in the history of integration. < as lemmas |
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