英：['blʌndərə]
美：['blʌndərə]
blunderer如何读
blunderer是什么意思
- n.轻率粗心的人；冒失鬼
blunderer英英释义
verb
intransitive verb
to move unsteadily or confusedly
In their exhaustion they often blundered against each other …—Norman Mailer
to make a mistake through stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness
blundered by not acting sooner
transitive verb
to utter stupidly, confusedly, or thoughtlessly
blundered an apology
to make a stupid, careless, or thoughtless mistake in
… blundering matters through ignorance …—Rafael Sabatini
noun
a gross error or mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness
a costly tactical blunder
blunderer词源英文解释
Verb Middle English blundren, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse blunda to shut one's eyes, doze, Norwegian dialect blundra Noun noun derivative of blunder >entry 1
The first known use of blunder was in the 14th century
blunderer儿童词典英英释义
blunder1 of 2verb
to move unsteadily or blindly
to make a mistake (as through stupidity or carelessness)
to say stupidly or thoughtlessly : blurt
blunder2 of 2noun
a bad or stupid mistake
blunderer 例句
1 She left the dining-car, and he sat down and cursed himself for a brute and a blunderer.
2 He was quite as unconventional in his mode of thought, and quite as erratic and unbusinesslike as his famous nephew—"Veritable blunderers," as Lafcadio says, "in the ways of the world."
3 We blundered along through the woods until we finally found the trail.
4 And just as the player's score cannot be changed without simply abandoning the rules of the game, so too the coach's record as a blunderer is, in respect of this one bit of counsel, unalterable.
5 Previous Israeli prime ministers, too, blundered into bloody wars on the basis of misguided strategies and faulty advice from their military and intelligence advisers.
6 No mere blunderer could have stirred the depths of the House of Commons as from time to time he did.
7 Still a blunderer, I put the kittens out on the south piazza the second day to treat them to a bracing interlude of air and sunshine.
8 The fine, or rather the naughty gentleman, in your Pamela, to whom Mr. Fielding very properly gives the sirname of Booby, is indeed one of the greatest bubbles, and blunderers that one can meet withal.
9 By contrast, some companies blundered strategically, such as Express, which filed for bankruptcy last month and announced plans to close 100 of its 500 locations.
10 It is lucky I opened credit to show these blunderers how to run their mill.
11 Their foul-ups are revisited, the field is winnowed, jokes are told and the No. 1 blunderer is chosen by the studio audience.
12 So we all jog on in the old routine, vaguely conscious that we are all blunderers, but indisposed for such a drastic remedy as would alone cure us.
13 It is true that certain blunderers treat this with indifference and contempt, thinking it much better to follow the ordinary usage of each day.
14 fixed a minor blunder in the advertising flyer
15 You must be on your guard before people, you always were such an awful old blunderer.
16 The bear, though rash in his arrogance and rage, was no mere headlong blunderer.
17 Tradesman there stands for scoundrel, as implicitly as with us an Irishman is a blunderer and a Scotchman a knave.
18 The blunderers at the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable bet all their chips on the GOP at the exact instant it stopped being their party.
19 And at odd moments, Brown himself can seem an uncanny figure, a goblin, a blunderer making the blackest jokes, a horned and Satanic figure caught in a glance in a distant mirror.
20 But even Trump, the business blunderer, should know that a gambler on a losing streak should quit before he pawns the gold watch that he inherited from his father.
blunderer 同义词
1 冒失鬼