mangle
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/ˈmæŋɡl/
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/ˈmæŋɡl/
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。
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。
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。