cock-up

美 [ˈkɑːk ʌp]英 [ˈkɒk ʌp]
  • n.(因组织不当而造成的)混乱,一团糟;(打乱了原先所作安排的)差错

复数: cock-ups

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noun

BrE informal(打乱了原先所作安排的)差错;(因组织不当而造成的)混乱,一团糟
a mistake that spoils people's arrangements; sth that has been spoilt because it was badly organized

There's been a bit of a cock-up over the travel arrangements.

旅行安排出了点儿岔子。

cock-up

频次

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    N-COUNT 一团糟
    If you make a cock-up of something, you ruin it by doing something wrong.

    He was in danger of making a real cock-up of this...

    他很有可能会把这事弄得一团糟。

  1. Then the experimenter looks a little embarrassed and starts to explain haltingly that there 's been a cock-up .

    然后那个实验者看上去有一点尴尬,他开始吞吞吐吐地解释说出现了一点小差错。

  2. It was based on that very British idea that everything we do is a cock-up .

    那篇文章基于一个非常典型的英国式观点:我们所做的每件事都会搞得一团糟。

  3. There 's been a bit of a cock-up over the travel arrangements .

    旅行安排出了点儿岔子。

  4. He was in danger of making a real cock-up of this

    他很有可能会把这事弄得一团糟。

  5. This was just an administrative cock-up .

    这纯粹是管理上的混乱。

  6. What a cock-up , spending eternity with two right arms !

    多神气啊,一个有着两条右臂的人!

  7. She made a complete cock-up of the arrangements .

    她把计划安排全弄糟了。

  8. If you don 't move immediately , someone else will discover your cock-up and follow the trail back to you .

    如果不立即行动,总有其他人会发现你的错误,总会找到罪魁祸首。

  9. The detention and subsequent release by the Japanese authorities of a Chinese fishing captain owed more to cock-up than conspiracy .

    日本官方扣押、随后释放中国渔船船长,更多的是因为“搞砸了”,而不是阴谋。

  10. Do not attribute to conspiracy what you can ascribe to cock-up .

    不要把你可以归结为一团糟的东西归因于阴谋。

  11. When you dig deep into a CV , most reveal missteps and some outright cock-ups .

    如果你仔细检查一篇简历,就会发现大多数人都犯过错误有些完全是一团糟。

  12. A recent Harvard Business Review blog argues that failure is so fantastic that organisations ought to hold a regular fail-fest at which employees wear a pink feather boa and celebrate their cock-ups .

    《哈佛商业评论》博客上最近的一篇文章建议,因为失败是如此美妙的一件事情,各类组织都应定期举行失败欢庆会,让员工戴上粉色羽毛围巾,庆祝过去的种种失败。

  13. A recent Harvard Business Review blog argues that failure is so fantastic that organisations ought to hold a regular " fail-fest " at which employees wear a pink feather boa and celebrate their cock-ups .

    《哈佛商业评论》博客上最近的一篇文章建议,因为失败是如此美妙的一件事情,各类组织都应定期举行“失败欢庆会”,让员工戴上粉色羽毛围巾,庆祝过去的种种失败。

  14. That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career : grafting a sea-coast on to land-locked Bohemia ( part of the present-day Czech Republic ) in The Winter 's Tale .

    因为从他的剧本可以看出,他的地理知识实在是一团糟:在《冬天的故事》里会给地处内陆的波西米亚(现在的一部分属于捷克)安一个海岸线。

  15. By the end of the day on Wednesday , appetite for big blocks of CCB stock was waning , in inverse correlation to the tittle-tattle . At best , an everyday tale of cock-up over conspiracy .

    截至周三收盘时,对建行大宗股份的胃口正在消退,与传言成反比。在最好的情况下,这是一个搞砸(而不是阴谋)的故事。