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Blunder Embarrassing Mistake Blʌndər Great Ordered Soldiers Attack

Front blunder
Pron ['blʌndər]
Back 【BLUNDER】
It was his great blunder to have ordered the soldiers to attack the enemy in the daytime.
他命令士兵在白天去攻击敌人, 是个很大的错误。
【重点词汇】
blunder n. 错误 同: mistake
Vocab
blunderan embarrassing mistake

A blunder is an embarrassing mistake. Accidentally called your new boyfriend by your old boyfriend's name? Ouch. That's a blunder you don't want to repeat.

Has an embarrassing mistake ever made you feel like you’re stumbling around with your eyes closed? If so, it won’t surprise you to learn that blunder comes from the Old Norse word blundra, meaning to “shut one's eyes.” It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that blunder came to refer to a stupid or embarrassing mistake, or as a verb, to describe making such a mistake, as in “I tend to blunder when I'm nervous.”

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