cock up

基本解釋

Cock up– This can be used as a verb or a noun and it means to make a serious mistake or a mistake. (It has nothing to do with male parts! )
這個(gè)短語既可用作動(dòng)詞也可用作名詞，它的意思是犯了很嚴(yán)重的錯(cuò)誤（動(dòng)詞）或錯(cuò)誤（名詞）。（這個(gè)表達(dá)跟男性器官毫無關(guān)系。））
Cock Up – This can be used as a verb or a noun and it means to make a serious mistake or a mistake. (It has nothing to do with male parts! )
這個(gè)俚語既可用作動(dòng)詞也可用作名詞，它的意思是犯了很嚴(yán)重的錯(cuò)誤或犯錯(cuò)誤。（這個(gè)表達(dá)跟男性器官毫無關(guān)系。）
That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career: grafting a sea-coast on to land-locked Bohemia (part of the present-day Czech Republic) in The Winter’s Tale.
因?yàn)閺乃膭”究梢钥闯?，他的地理知識(shí)實(shí)在是一團(tuán)糟：在《冬天的故事》里會(huì)給地處內(nèi)陸的波西米亞（現(xiàn)在的一部分屬于捷克）安一個(gè)海岸線。

The Tories allege that cost-saving imposed by senior officials lay behind the cock-up.
ECONOMIST: Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown
Yet far from being an imperialist conspiracy, as American officials tell it the base agreement was a bureaucratic cock-up.
ECONOMIST: Hoist on the petard of a dissuasive defence agreement
There is a chance, of course, that Amazon cock this up so spectacularly that self-publishers and publisher leave in droves and the whole enterprise collapses.
FORBES: Amazon Eyes Secondhand Ebook Market