| 单词 | botch |
| 释义 | botch (once / 4774 pages) vn If you botch something, you make a mess of it or you ruin it. If you totally botch your lines in the school play, you stammer and stutter your way through the whole thing. Interestingly, the word botch originally meant the opposite of what it means today. The Middle English word bocchen meant to mend or repair. As a noun botch means an embarrassing mistake or something that is done poorly, especially due to lack of skill. If they've never painted before, your friends working on set design might make a complete botch of the scenery for the play, which might involve repainting the whole thing. WORD FAMILYbotch: botched, botcher, botches, botching, botchy+/botcher: botchers USAGE EXAMPLESJust as his botched kick defied reason, so it was with Ernie Els on the first hole on the first day at the Masters. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) After local officials botched the investigation, the Justice Department intervened. Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) But she says the officers posted two photos of the botched raid on Snapchat. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1v make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out Syn|Hyper ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil fail, go wrong, miscarry be unsuccessful 2n an embarrassing mistake Syn|Hypo|Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, bungle, 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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