botch /ˈbɑʧ/
(vt.)(vi.)拙笨地修補,蹧蹋拙笨的修補,難看的補綴
botch /ˈbɑʧ/ 名詞
Botch n.; pl. Botches
1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.]
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. --Milton.
2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. --Shak.
Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.]
1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth.
2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. --Dryden.
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botch
n : an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer,
bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, boner, boo-boo]
v : make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: 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]
Botch
the name given in Deut. 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues
(Ex. 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil"
(q.v.).