球沒接住
這是核心畫面最原始的樣子，球場上的那一下。
verb · B2
In a game or sport, to fail to catch a ball you should have caught, or to kick, hit or throw it badly.
漏接；踢壞、打壞
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 漏接；踢壞、打壞 · 暖手筒
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muff
v, n核心畫面
The ball was already in your hands, and it did not stay there. Everything in this group needs those two halves: it was yours, and you let it go at the one moment that counted. Nobody took it from you and nothing stopped you — that is what makes a muff sting. Move the ball out of the picture and put a chance, a line in a play, or a whole person in its place, and the rest of the group appears.
球本來已經在你手上，然後它沒有留下來。這一組的每個意思都需要這兩半：東西本來是你的，而你在最關鍵的那一下鬆掉了。不是…更多收起
球本來已經在你手上，然後它沒有留下來。這一組的每個意思都需要這兩半：東西本來是你的，而你在最關鍵的那一下鬆掉了。不是被搶走，也不是有人擋你——所以 muff 才特別刺。把畫面裡的球換成一個機會、一句台詞，或換成「老是這樣的那個人」，這一組其他的意思就跑出來了。From the picture
機會沒抓住
把手上的球換成手上的機會，畫面完全一樣：東西已經給你了，你自己沒拿穩。
verb · B2
To spoil a chance to do something well, by handling it badly at the moment it matters.
搞砸；把機會弄丟
Also in this word
noun · C1
In sport, a muff is a moment when a player drops a ball they already had in their hands, or handles it badly. It is informal.
漏接（失誤）
noun · C1
An old-fashioned word for someone who is clumsy or no good at something, especially at a game or sport.
笨手笨腳的人
A second word, same spelling
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muff
n核心畫面
A short soft tube, open at both ends, with nothing inside it but your two hands. Picture someone in a winter coat holding it against their front: the hands are warm, they are touching each other, and they are out of use. The tube shape is the whole of the word — which is why the same name gets given to a sleeve around a pipe and to the puff of feathers at the sides of a bird's face.
這個 muff 可以想成「一截兩頭開口的軟筒子」，裡面除了你的兩隻手什麼都沒有。畫面是一個穿冬衣的人把它抱在身前：手…更多收起
這個 muff 可以想成「一截兩頭開口的軟筒子」，裡面除了你的兩隻手什麼都沒有。畫面是一個穿冬衣的人把它抱在身前：手很暖，兩手互相貼著，而且完全用不上。整個字講的其實就是那個筒狀。所以同樣的形狀出現在別的地方時也叫 muff——套在水管外面的短套筒，還有某些鳥臉頰兩側蓬起來的那撮毛。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives this as probably from Dutch mof, meaning muff or mitten — a soft covering that the hands go into, which is the same picture the English word still carries.
根據 Wiktionary，這個字多半來自荷蘭語的 mof，意思是「暖手筒、連指手套」——一個把手包進去的軟套子，正好就是英文今天還在用的那個畫面。
Wiktionary via kaikki, muff etymology 1 (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:620909625:24587)