動詞：把事情做壞
核心畫面裡「縫歪那一針」的動作本身。
verb · B2
To do a job or task very badly, because you were careless or because you did not have the skill to do it properly, so that the result is a mess and often has to be done again.
搞砸；做壞
核心畫面
Picture a patch sewn onto a coat: the hole is covered, but the stitches are crooked and everyone can see it. That is the picture to hold for botch. The word points at hands-on work that had a right way to be done and was not done that way — a repair, a haircut, a shelf, a piece of wiring. It points at the cause too: the person rushed, or could not do it. And it points at what is left behind, because a botch does not disappear; it sits there, and usually someone has to do the job again. The verb is the doing (they botched the repair) and the noun is the thing left behind (the repair was a botch). Both are informal and both are blaming.
可以想成一件外套上被縫歪的補丁：洞是補起來了，可是針腳歪歪扭扭，誰都看得出來。這就是 botch 的畫面。這個字說的…更多收起
可以想成一件外套上被縫歪的補丁：洞是補起來了，可是針腳歪歪扭扭，誰都看得出來。這就是 botch 的畫面。這個字說的是動手做的事，本來有個做對的方法，結果沒照著做——修東西、剪頭髮、裝層架、拉電線都算。它同時交代了原因：人太急，或本來就不會。它還指向留下來的東西，因為做壞的結果不會自己消失，它就在那裡，通常還得有人重做一次。動詞是那個動作（they botched the repair），名詞是留下的那個東西（the repair was a botch）。兩個都是口語，也都在明白地責怪。From the word’s history
The supplied Wiktionary etymology says botch comes from Middle English bocchen, to mend, though its further origin is uncertain and it is a doublet of bodge. The mending sense is worth knowing because it explains the patch in the core image: the word once named repair work, and what survives is the crooked repair.
封包裡的 Wiktionary 詞源說 botch 來自 Middle English 的 bocchen「修補」，再往前的來歷則標為不確定，並註明它和 bodge 是同源雙式詞。知道這一點有用，因為它正好解釋核心畫面裡那塊補丁：這個字本來講的是修補，留到今天的卻是「補得很難看」的那一半。因為詞源本身標了不確定，這條線索當成記憶掛鉤就好。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:832265678): Middle English bocchen 'to mend', origin uncertain; doublet of bodge.
Two branches
名詞：留下的爛成品
同一個畫面，鏡頭從手上移到那塊縫歪的補丁上。
noun · B2
A piece of work or a job that has been done badly and carelessly, so that it looks a mess or has to be done again.
搞砸的成品
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
botchverb詞源 1/bɒt͡ʃ/
- 1
To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.
- A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
- And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]
- 2
To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.
- 3
To mend or repair (something) clumsily.
botchnoun詞源 1/bɒt͡ʃ/
- 1
An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
- 2
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- 3
A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- 4
A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
- 5
archaicOne who makes a mess of something.
- If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, Doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-by.
botchnoun詞源 2/bɒt͡ʃ/
- 1
obsoleteA tumour or other malignant swelling.
- Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,
- 2
A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。