
把…弄得一團糟;豎起
There's been a bit of a cock-up over the travel arrangements.
旅行安排出了點兒岔子。
The world's second largest chip shop admitted that it had made huge mistakes getting Barcelona to market, and that production cock-ups and core limitations delayed the launch by up to eight months.
這家世界第二大的芯片生産商承認,在将巴塞羅那推向市場時,他們犯下了巨大的錯誤:産品錯誤和核心的限制,使得産品延期達8個月之久!
“I screwed up,” Barack Obama said with spectacular candour of some of his executive appointments this week, before specifying that the point of saying so was to prevent similar cock-ups in the future.
“我搞砸了。” 巴拉克·奧巴馬(Barack Obama)本周談到他提名的一些高官時非常坦誠地如是說道,事前詳細說清楚是為了防止以後還有類似的錯誤出現。
That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career: grafting a sea-locked Bohemia (part of the present-day Czech Republic) in the Winter's Tale.
因為從他的劇本可以看出他的地理知識實在是一團糟:在《冬天的故事》裡會給地處内陸的波希米亞按一個海岸線。
Before leaving on vacation, a German couple set up a loudspeaker and timer rigged to blast their neighbors with the sound of a crowing cock every morning.
一對德國夫婦在外出度假前安裝好了擴音器和定時裝置,使其在每天淩晨用刺耳的公雞啼叫聲騷擾鄰居。
|stick up/prick up;把…弄得一團糟;豎起
"cock up" 的詳細解釋
"cock up" 是一個主要在英國及英聯邦國家使用的非正式俚語短語,其含義和用法需要根據語境仔細區分,主要包含兩層意思:
作為名詞短語 (a cock-up):指錯誤、混亂或一團糟的局面
作為動詞短語 (to cock something up):指把事情搞砸、弄糟
to cock up
或更常見的是 to cock something up
。重要提示:
“Cock up”是英語中一個多義短語,具體含義需結合語境和詞性分析:
1. 名詞(通常連寫為cock-up/cockup)
表示“混亂、錯誤或搞砸的事情”,屬于英式英語中的非正式表達。
例:She made a complete cock-up of the arrangements.(她把安排全搞砸了)。
2. 動詞短語(cock up)
可表示“豎起、舉起”(如耳朵、頭等),常見于描述動物或物體的動作。
例:The dog cocked up its ears.(狗豎起了耳朵)。
補充說明:
常見同義詞:
名詞:mess-up, balls-up(俚語);動詞:raise, lift。
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