mangle

🇺🇸 /ˈmæŋɡl/ 🇬🇧 /ˈmæŋɡl/
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verb
R

to damage something by tearing or twisting it

Be careful with your fingers around that machine, you wouldn't want to mangle them.

小心那台机器,别让它把你的手指弄伤了。

R

to badly change something, like a language or music, by saying or playing it wrong

He tried to play the song, but he mangled it so badly that it was hardly recognizable.

他试图演奏那首歌,但他演奏得太糟糕了,几乎无法辨认。

noun
R

a machine with two rollers used for pressing water out of washed clothes

My grandmother still uses an old mangle to wring out laundry.

我的祖母仍然使用一个旧的压平机来拧干衣服。

translation

v. 撕扯损坏, 糟蹋
n. 轧干机

词形变化

3rd Present mangles
Past mangled
Perfect mangled
Progressive mangling
Plural mangles