blunder

英 ['bl?nd?] 美['bl?nd?]

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復數:?blunders;第三人稱單數:?blunders;過去式:?blundered;過去分詞:?blundered;現在分詞:?blundering;

1. 不太爛的, 不爛的.

founder蹣跚,絆倒。
flounder掙扎,踉蹌。
blunder踉蹌地走。
2. blind => blunder: 就是形容那種走路、做事不長眼睛的人。
3. => stumble about blindly.
4. 諧音“步踉蹌兒、步啷當兒”。

blunder 大錯

詞源同blind, 眼盲的。

blunder: blunder: [14] When blunder first entered the language, it meant ‘stumble around blindly, bumping into things’, which gives a clue to its possible ultimate connection with blind. Its probable source was Old Norse blundra ‘shut one’s eyes’, forerunner of Swedish blunda and Norwegian blunda (Jon Blund is the Swedish equivalent of ‘the sandman’), and very likely a descendant of Indo-European *bhlendhos, from which blind comes. The first record of the modern sense ‘foolish mistake’ comes in Edward Phillips’s The new world of English words 1706.
=> blind
blunder (v.): mid-14c., "to stumble about blindly," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blundra "shut one's eyes," from PIE root *bhlendh- (see blind). Meaning "make a stupid mistake" is first recorded 1711. Related: Blundered; blundering.
blunder (n.): mid-14c., apparently from blunder (v.), though of about the same age.

1. It had been a monumental blunder to give him the assign-ment.: 當時把這項任務給他是大錯特錯了。

4. She cast a sidelong glance at Eric to see if he had noticed her blunder.: 她偷偷斜掃了埃里克一眼，看他有沒有留意到她的錯誤。