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Mishandle Important Dog Dealt D Mishandling 英 ˌmɪs'hændl] 美

英语单词 mishandle
英美音标 英 [ˌmɪs'hændl] 美 [ˌmɪs'hændl]
中文释义 vt.粗暴对待;马虎对待
vocabulary简明 When you mishandle something, you make a mess of it. For example, a teacher who mishandles a classroom loses control of his students.
vocabulary扩展 An entrepreneur who mishandles an important meeting at her bank might have lost an opportunity to borrow money for her business, and a dog trainer who mishandles an aggressive dog might end up getting bitten. When you handle something, you deal with it, and when you add the Old English prefix mis-, it means that you've dealt with it in a "wrong" or "bad" way.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]对…处理不当 If you say that someone has mishandled something, you are critical of them because you think they have dealt with it badly.
  [V n]
  [disapproval]
  • She completely mishandled an important project purely through lack of attention...

    她之所以彻底搞砸了一个重大项目纯粹是因为不够上心。

  • The judge said the police had mishandled the siege.

    法官说警方对围攻安排不当。

mishandling
  • ...the Government's mishandling of the economy.

    政府对经济问题的处理不当

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