blunder
英 ['bl?nd?]
美 ['bl?nd?]
- vi. 跌跌撞撞地走；犯大錯(cuò)
- vt. 做錯(cuò)
- n. 大錯(cuò)
助記提示
1. 不太爛的, 不爛的.
founder蹣跚,絆倒。
flounder掙扎,踉蹌。
blunder踉蹌地走。
2. blind => blunder: 就是形容那種走路、做事不長(zhǎng)眼睛的人。
3. => stumble about blindly.
4. 諧音“步踉蹌兒、步啷當(dāng)兒”。
中文詞源
blunder 大錯(cuò)詞源同blind, 眼盲的。
英文詞源
- blunder
- blunder: [14] When blunder first entered the language, it meant ‘stumble around blindly, bumping into things’, which gives a clue to its possible ultimate connection with blind. Its probable source was Old Norse blundra ‘shut one’s eyes’, forerunner of Swedish blunda and Norwegian blunda (Jon Blund is the Swedish equivalent of ‘the sandman’), and very likely a descendant of Indo-European *bhlendhos, from which blind comes. The first record of the modern sense ‘foolish mistake’ comes in Edward Phillips’s The new world of English words 1706.
=> blind - blunder (v.)
- mid-14c., "to stumble about blindly," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blundra "shut one's eyes," from PIE root *bhlendh- (see blind). Meaning "make a stupid mistake" is first recorded 1711. Related: Blundered; blundering.
- blunder (n.)
- mid-14c., apparently from blunder (v.), though of about the same age.
雙語例句
- 1. It had been a monumental blunder to give him the assign-ment.
- 當(dāng)時(shí)把這項(xiàng)任務(wù)給他是大錯(cuò)特錯(cuò)了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The government committed a double blunder.
- 政府重蹈覆轍。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. to make a terrible blunder
- 犯大錯(cuò)
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. She cast a sidelong glance at Eric to see if he had noticed her blunder.
- 她偷偷斜掃了埃里克一眼，看他有沒有留意到她的錯(cuò)誤。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. I saw that I had been guilty of a careless blunder.
- 我意識(shí)到自己因疏忽而釀成大錯(cuò).
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》