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To bungle something is to try to do it and make a mess of it, because of or stupid mistakes. You did not just fail; you handled the job badly.
To bungle something把某件事搞砸 是就是 to try to do it想把它做好 and但結果 make a mess of it卻搞得一團亂，because因為 of clumsy or stupid mistakes笨手笨腳或愚蠢的失誤。You你 did not just fail不只是失敗而已；you你 handled the job badly是把事情處理得很糟。
News writers like this word: a raid, a rescue, an investigation that went wrong because people in charge were careless, not only unlucky. It is a little .
News writers新聞寫手 like this word喜歡用這個字：a raid, a rescue, an investigation一場突襲、一次救援、一項調查 that went wrong出了差錯 because因為 people in charge負責的人 were careless不小心，not only而不只是 unlucky運氣不好而已。It它 是有點 a little unkind不厚道。
It is not a children's word, and it is not stiff-formal either — you meet it in papers and in everyday talk. You can also use it as a noun: the whole thing was a bungle.
It它 is not不是 a children's word一個小孩用的字，and而 it它 is not也不是 stiff-formal很生硬的正式用語 either——you你 meet it會在 in papers報紙上 and還有 in annoyed everyday talk惱火時的日常對話裡碰到它。You你 can also也可以 use it as a noun當名詞用：the whole thing整件事 是 a bungle一場搞砸。
Though actually, it is stronger than a small slip. Drop one spoon and you have not bungled dinner. Burn the food, forget the salt, and set off the smoke alarm, and you have.
Though actually不過其實，it它 is比 stronger要嚴重 than a small slip一個小小的失誤。Drop one spoon掉一支湯匙 and而 you你 have not bungled dinner不算把晚餐搞砸。Burn the food把食物燒焦、forget the salt忘記放鹽，and而且 set off the smoke alarm讓煙霧警報器響了，and而 you你 have就算是搞砸了。
組成The origin of the verb is not certain. It may be a sound-word (that clumsy feel, a bit like bumble or fumble), or it may come from old northern words: Old Swedish bunga, “to strike”, and dialect Swedish bangla, “to work badly”. The noun comes from the verb.
原始詞典資料3 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。
bungleverb/ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/
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To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
- I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; and have so repeated to them (some of the Chiefs here) half an hour ago.
- […] talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries.
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To act or work incompetently; to fumble.
- Physis is nothing else but the vegetable World, the Universall comprehension of Spermaticall life dispersed throughout. […] For Physis (as I said) is not the divine Understanding it self, but is as if you should conceive, an Artificers imagination separate from the Artificer, and left alone to work by it self without animadversion. Hence Physis or Nature is sometimes puzzeld and bungells in ill disposed matter, because its power is not absolute and omnipotent.
- [T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. "Would any one believe this?" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. "I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!"
bunglenoun/ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/
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A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.
- VVherefore this Religious affection vvhich nature has implanted, and as ſtrongly rooted in Man as the feare of death or the love of vvomen, vvould be the moſt enormous ſlip or bungle ſhe could commit, ſo that ſhe vvould ſo ſhamefully faile in the laſt Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man, that inſtead of a Plaudite ſhe vvould deſerve to be hiſſed off the Stage.
- The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.
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。