cock up是什么意思

双语例句

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

旅行安排出了点儿岔子。

(2)The world's second largest chip shop admitted that it had made huge mistakes getting Barcelona to market, and that production cock-ups and core limitations delayed the launch by up to eight months.

这家世界第二大的芯片生产商承认，在将巴塞罗那推向市场时，他们犯下了巨大的错误：产品错误和核心的限制，使得产品延期达8个月之久！

(3)“I screwed up,” Barack Obama said with spectacular candour of some of his executive appointments this week, before specifying that the point of saying so was to prevent similar cock-ups in the future.

“我搞砸了。” 巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)本周谈到他提名的一些高官时非常坦诚地如是说道，事前详细说清楚是为了防止以后还有类似的错误出现。

(4)That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career: grafting a sea-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希米亚按一个海岸线。

(5)Before leaving on vacation, a German couple set up a loudspeaker and timer rigged to blast their neighbors with the sound of a crowing cock every morning.

一对德国夫妇在外出度假前安装好了扩音器和定时装置，使其在每天凌晨用刺耳的公鸡啼叫声骚扰邻居。

同义词

把…弄得一团糟；竖起

释义

Brit. informal spoil or ruin something as a result of incompetence or inefficiency

〈英，非正式〉把…搞糟；扰乱；破坏

the party cocked up the Euro-elections.

这个党把欧盟选举搞砸了。