If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
例句
Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.两名被手铐铐在一起的囚犯试图逃跑时分别往电灯杆两边跑,结果没逃掉。...the FBI's bungled attempt to end the 51 day siege.联邦调查局为结束持续51天的围困进行的糟糕尝试
英汉词典释义
vt.
搞糟,完不成
If you bungle a job, you must do it again!要是你把一件事搞糟了,你得重做!
笨手笨脚地做; 失败
They bungled the job他们把活搞糟了。
n.
搞糟了的事情; 失误
Their pay was late because of a computer bungle.他们的工资晚发了,是由于计算机出错。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. an embarrassing mistake
Verb
1. 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"