botch

音标发音

• 英式音标 [bɒtʃ]
• 美式音标 [bɑːtʃ]
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基本解释

• 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

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• This is the best posting I’ve ever had, no kids, nocats, no-wax floors, so I don’t want to botch it.
  这是我做过的最好的工作，没小孩，没猫，没有打蜡的地板，所以我不想搞砸了。
• 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。
• 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。

权威例句

• If Duffield and Aneel Bhusri botch things, good luck in firing them, Workday shareholders.
  FORBES: Workday Founder Duffield: $3.9 Billion Richer on the Stock, So Why the Small-Time Items?
• Even allowing for the scale of the task, they have made a botch of things so far.
  ECONOMIST: “War lite” is all very well. Empire lite is a mistake
• One day he may botch something really badly and be obliged to ride off into the sunset.
  ECONOMIST: Bodo Hombach, Germany’s trouble-shooter

词组短语

短语

• botch up 搞坏
• botch detail 难看的补缀
• Botch Oneself 糟践自己
• Philip Botch 标签
• botch with 修补的不好

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• to spoil something by doing it badly
• something that is spoiled by being done badly

柯林斯英英字典

• If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• Botch up means the same as .
• If you make a botch of something that you are doing, you botch it.

专业释义

经济学

• 拙笨地修补