cock-up

常见例句

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。
The media chatter about the book has focused largely on the tedious question of who exactly was to blame for which cock-up during the doomed McCain-Palin presidential campaign.
媒体对这本书议论纷纷，他们认为该书主要围绕谁该为麦卡恩总统选举的失败负责这个老生常谈的话题。
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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。

The Tories allege that cost-saving imposed by senior officials lay behind the cock-up.
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Yet far from being an imperialist conspiracy, as American officials tell it the base agreement was a bureaucratic cock-up.
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If Republicans are firm believers in conspiracy theory, blaming the British for all the wrong inflicted on the ancient Irish nation, Mr Taylor comes down on the side of the cock-up theory of history.
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