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 bungling ['bʌŋgliŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 笨拙的, 粗劣的

  1. The act of bungling, especially a poor stroke in golf.
    笨拙的动作,不高明的一击拙劣的行为,尤其指在高尔夫球中笨拙的一击
  2. A clumsy or bungled action.
    笨手笨脚笨拙的或拙劣的行为
  3. Irish patriot who fought for the rights of Irish Catholics and was executed for his part in a bungled uprising against the British.
    埃米特,罗伯特1778-1803爱尔兰爱国主义者,他为爱尔兰天主教的权利而战,在反对英国的事件中,因失败而被处决


bungling
[ adj ]
  1. showing lack of skill or aptitude

  2. <adj.all>
    a bungling workman
    did a clumsy job
    his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
  3. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

  4. <adj.all>
    a bumbling mechanic
    a bungling performance
    ham-handed governmental interference
    could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature


Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bungled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bungling}.] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf.
Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See {Bang}.]
To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.


Bungling \Bun"gling\, a.
Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. --Swift.

They make but bungling work. --Dryden.

  1. Quanex blames itself and New York Stock Exchange officials for bungling the announcement.
  2. An angry judge criticized police for bungling evidence in the raping of a Central Park jogger and ordered the trial indefinitely postponed of three teen-agers charged in the case.
  3. Revealed is a series of mishaps and official bungling that continually put the oft-arrested, twice-convicted Mr. Waldrop back on the street despite his being sentenced to 40 years in the very case handled by Mr. Moore.
  4. After the Pan Am disaster, British Transport Secretary Paul Channon was accused by critics in Britain of bungling the dissemination to airlines of warnings from West Germany that Palestinian terrorists had devised a new radio cassette bomb.
  5. The two TV channels have begun carrying everything from illegal street protests to investigative reports on government bungling and excess.
  6. Independent reports blamed official bungling for failure to find the gunman.
  7. Only after bungling an opportunity to back an attempted coup against Noriega last October did the Bush administration finally decide to dump him.
  8. He accuses them of making him a scapegoat to cover up their own bungling supervision of the thrift industry.
  9. Jim Gall, chairman of the Miami-based Auction Co. of America, disputed Mr. Seidman and accused the bailout agency of bungling the auction.
  10. Zimbabwe's biggest daily, The Herald, Thursday attributed arrests of innocent bystanders to "bungling" by police.
  11. But she called him "DelGadio," and after bungling the second attempt as well, asked the crowd to "vote for all these people" and said she was giving up on the names.
  12. The insurgents have charged Doe's government with human rights abuse, economic bungling and corruption in the 10 years since Doe seized power in a violent coup.
  13. He told the newspaper he was a victim of a Greek-inspired political conspiracy and of bungling by British investigators.
  14. Only instead of the cool, savvy shyster typified by the Richard Dreyfuss character, or the desperate schemer portrayed by Danny De Vito, I was the bungling beginner, eager to sell but a failure as a hustler.
  15. He has held the defense portfolio since 1984, and while bungling badly during the early days of the Palestinian uprising, has recently experienced a rise in reputation through his handling of negotiations with Cairo over plans for Palestinian elections.
  16. May 12 _ A judicial inquiry commission, which worked for 11 months to review the handling of the case, reprimands police for bungling the 12 critical hours after the slaying.
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