mangle

🇺🇸 /ˈmæŋɡl/ 🇬🇧 /ˈmæŋɡl/
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難度
標籤 TOP20000
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.

小心那台機器,別讓它把你的手指弄傷了。

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.

他試圖演奏那首歌,但他演奏得太糟糕了,幾乎無法辨認。

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個舊的壓平機來擰乾衣服。

translation

v. 撕扯損壞, 糟蹋
n. 軋乾機

詞形變化

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