cock-up

英 [ˈkɒk ʌp]

美 [ˈkɑːk ʌp]

n.  (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

复数：cock-ups　

牛津词典

noun

• （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
  1. There's been a bit of a cock-up over the travel arrangements.
     旅行安排出了点儿岔子。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 一团糟
  If you make acock-upof something, you ruin it by doing something wrong.
  1. 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。
  2. This was just an administrative cock-up.
     这纯粹是管理上的混乱。

双语例句

• 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。
• This was just an administrative cock-up.
  这纯粹是管理上的混乱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• What a cock-up, spending eternity with two right arms!
  多神气啊，一个有着两条右臂的人！
• She made a complete cock-up of the arrangements.
  她把计划安排全弄糟了。
• 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。
• 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。