bodge

1 And so we are left with a series of bodged compromises, of which middle-class women employing cleaners is merely the most obvious.

2 Instead, they dithered and equivocated and came up with a bodge job.

3 Remember what a furious bodge that turned out to be?

4 “We try to make it feel as much like a proper coherent tournament each night,” he said, “even though it is a bit of a bodge job.”

5 While on Mr Bray's roof, one of the three said: "As you can see, we're doing some roofing work here... we're doing some bodging."

6 In Great Britain this can be `bodge wire', after mainstreanm slang `bodge' for a clumsy improvisation or sloppy job of work.

7 But he has bodged together a new cabinet, the kind of emergency reshuffle no party leader wants forced upon them.

8 But for restoration experts in Spain, the latest bodged job is another example of the need for proper training, protection and investment.

9 Only with a good deal of bodged logic.

10 Instead, we continue to rely on a centuries-old technological bodge to finish off trainers spun on cutting- edge 3D looms.

11 A failure to do so ranks as top bodging.

12 Or the moment she bodged up her first audition.

13 This really happened 15 years earlier in 1065, but the film has bodged the timeline to heighten the tension.

14 Like most jobs done on the cheap, the result has been a bodge: the economy continues to be stuck in neutral.

15 He also notes, spreading like sweat-patches through the damp masonry, from rusted Victorian pipework and bodged Victorian stonework, innumerable black stains, caused by rainwater, air pollution, or worse.

16 In this era of design-and-build bodging, when architects are often sidelined and contractors cut corners, buildings can still be made this well.

17 So through that long, famous summer, we laboured through The Entertainer, each bodged and fumbled chord turning Scott Joplin's lilting, whimsical rag into a lolloping, peg-legged dirge, music from a speakeasy in hell.

18 The bodged restoration came to light after an artist placed pictures of the offending visage on Facebook on Saturday.

19 But in that great British tradition of bodging and innovation we seem to already have the solution to this problem.

20 Yet this era of conservative bluffing and bodging is coming to an end.

1 的变体

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2 笨手笨脚地弄糟

botch

3 弄得一团糟

go to rack

4 粗制滥造

pulp shoddy scratchy hit-and-miss jerry-built gimcrack crank out cobble together