botch
botch 英 [bɒtʃ] 美 [bɑtʃ]
vt. 糟蹋；拙笨地修补；拙劣地拼凑 vi. 拙笨地修补；弄坏某事物 n. 难看的补缀；笨拙的修补；笨拙的工作
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- 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.
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- vt. 糟蹋；拙笨地修补；拙劣地拼凑
- vi. 拙笨地修补；弄坏某事物
- n. 难看的补缀；笨拙的修补；笨拙的工作
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1. Perhaps the starkest botch has been their inability or unwillingness to control the spread of invasive species.
也许刻板的修补更彰显各国政府的无能为力或是对控制入侵物种蔓延的不情愿。
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2. A bigger mistake than any botch job you'll ever manage is to try to bury your mistakes and pretend they don't exist.
比起你曾处理的拙劣的工作来，更大的错误是试图掩盖你的错误，并假装它们并不存在。
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3. It’s not as embarrassing to botch a basic scientific fact, if you can say that you were misled by an incorrect entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
弄错一个基本的科学事实也没什么可尴尬的，你大可以说你被大英百科全书中的某个错误条目误导了。
- botch (v.) late 14c., bocchen "to repair," later, "repair clumsily, to spoil by unskillful work" (1520s); of unknown origin. Middle English Dictionary says probably the same as bocchen "to swell up or fester; to bulge or project" (though this is only from early 15c. and OED denies a connection) which is from Old North French boche, Old French boce, a common Romanic word of uncertain origin. Related: Botched; botching.
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