botch

名词 botch:

1. an embarrassing mistake
   同义词：blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, boner, boo-boo

动词 botch:

1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   同义词：bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

1. I'm afraid the unexpected accident may botch up the dinner tonight.
   恐怕这意想不到的事故会把今天的晚宴搞糟。
2. Don't give the job to Reed, he'll only botch it up.
   这事情不能交给里德办，他只会把事情弄糟的。

botch

v.tr.（及物动词）
botched,botch.ing,botch.es
To ruin through clumsiness.
笨手笨脚：做得拙劣而毁坏
To make or perform clumsily; bungle.
表现拙劣：做得或表现得拙劣；搞得一团糟
To repair or mend clumsily.
修补得不好
n.（名词）
A ruined or defective piece of work:
笨手笨脚的工作：一件搞糟或粗劣的工作：
例句：
.I have made a miserable botch of this description.(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
.我这段描写简直搞得糟透了.(纳撒尼尔·霍索恩)

A hodgepodge.
大杂烩

来源：
Middle English bocchen [to mend]
中古英语 bocchen [修补]

【引伸】
botch.er
n.（名词）
botch.y
adj.（形容词）
<参考词汇><同义词>botch,blow,bungle,fumble,muffThe central meaning shared by these verbs is .to harm or spoil through inept or clumsy handling.:
这些动词的中心意思都是.因处理得愚蠢或笨拙而损害或毁坏.：
例句：
botch a repair;
修得不好；

例句：
blow an opportunity;
丧失机会；

例句：
a bungled performance;
拙劣表现；

例句：
fumbled my chance for a promotion;
失掉我一次提升的机会；

例句：
an actor muffing his lines.
表演失误的演员