cock up

常見例句

Cock up– This can be used as a verb or a noun and it means to make a serious mistake or a mistake. (It has nothing to do with male parts! )
這個短語既可用作動詞也可用作名詞，它的意思是犯了很嚴(yán)重的錯誤（動詞）或錯誤（名詞）。（這個表達(dá)跟男性器官毫無關(guān)系。））
Cock Up – This can be used as a verb or a noun and it means to make a serious mistake or a mistake. (It has nothing to do with male parts! )
這個俚語既可用作動詞也可用作名詞，它的意思是犯了很嚴(yán)重的錯誤或犯錯誤。（這個表達(dá)跟男性器官毫無關(guān)系。）
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.
因為從他的劇本可以看出，他的地理知識實在是一團(tuán)糟：在《冬天的故事》里會給地處內(nèi)陸的波西米亞（現(xiàn)在的一部分屬于捷克）安一個海岸線。

The Tories allege that cost-saving imposed by senior officials lay behind the cock-up.
ECONOMIST: Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown
Yet far from being an imperialist conspiracy, as American officials tell it the base agreement was a bureaucratic cock-up.
ECONOMIST: Hoist on the petard of a dissuasive defence agreement
There is a chance, of course, that Amazon cock this up so spectacularly that self-publishers and publisher leave in droves and the whole enterprise collapses.
FORBES: Amazon Eyes Secondhand Ebook Market