mangle
mangle — 動詞
- manglepresent simple I / you / we / they
- mangleshe / she / it
- mangledpast simple
- mangling-ing form
1. to badly damage a physical object or body part by crushing, tearing, or twisting
壓爛；扯爛
把物體擠壓、扭曲到嚴重變形
to badly damage a physical object or body part by crushing, tearing, or twisting it, leaving it deformed beyond easy repair — for example, a car crushed in a crash, or a hand caught in a machine.
The truck rolled twice and mangled the front of Felix's small car.
那輛卡車翻了兩圈，把 Felix 那部小車的車頭壓得稀爛。
mangle + [physical object] — common in vehicle-crash reporting
Factory inspectors found that the press had mangled the worker's left hand.
工廠檢查員發現，那台沖壓機已經把工人的左手壓爛了。
subject is often a heavy machine or vehicle
Rin's bicycle was mangled by a delivery van that ran a red light.
Rin 的腳踏車被一輛闖紅燈的送貨車撞得扭曲變形。
passive: be mangled (by + agent)
Wind from the storm mangled the metal roof of the old garden shed.
暴風雨的強風把那棟舊花園棚屋的金屬屋頂吹得扭曲變形。
- badly mangled
- mangle a [vehicle/limb/body]
- be mangled in [an accident]
文法句型
mangle + [object]
be mangled (by + agent)
用法筆記
Object is typically a solid physical thing (vehicle, limb, metal, machinery) — not a soft or liquid substance. Frequently passive when the cause is a vehicle, machine, or disaster.
常見錯誤
2. to ruin a spoken or written thing — such as a name, a song, a poem, or a foreign
唸錯；糟蹋
因錯誤太多而毀掉文字或表演
to ruin a spoken or written thing — such as a name, a song, a poem, or a foreign phrase — by getting so many parts wrong that the original is hardly recognisable.
The new presenter mangled almost every Polish surname on the guest list.
新來的主持人把賓客名單上幾乎每個波蘭姓氏都唸錯了。
common object: foreign names or surnames the speaker doesn't know
Kabir mangled the lyrics of the national anthem in front of the whole school.
Kabir 在全校面前把國歌的歌詞唱得亂七八糟。
mangle + [lyrics/poem/speech] — public performance context
Sofie was nervous and mangled the French phrases she had practised for weeks.
Sofie 一緊張，就把她練了好幾個禮拜的法語句子糟蹋光了。
common with a foreign language the speaker is still learning
The translation app completely mangled the meaning of the original poem.
那個翻譯 App 把原詩的意思完全扭曲掉了。
- mangle the pronunciation
- mangle someone's name
- completely mangle
- butcher
informal; similar feel — often used for songs and speeches
- garble
focus is on making the message unclear; mangle adds the sense of effortful failure
- mispronounce
narrower — only sounds; mangle covers wrong words, wrong order, and dropped lines too
文法句型
mangle + [name, speech, lyrics, etc.]
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this sense always takes a verbal or written object (words, names, music, languages). The damage is to the form or meaning of language, not to a physical thing.
常見錯誤
mangle — 名詞
- manglesingular
- manglesplural
1. a hand-operated machine, mostly seen in older British households or museums, tha
軋衣機
舊式手搖滾筒脫水機
a hand-operated machine, mostly seen in older British households or museums, that squeezes water from wet laundry by feeding the cloth between two heavy rollers turned by a handle.
Élise's grandmother still owned the iron mangle from her wedding day in 1948.
Élise 的祖母到現在還留著她 1948 年結婚時那台鐵製軋衣機。
common with possessive + grandparent context — the object is now historical
In the museum kitchen, Lukas showed visitors how to feed a wet sheet through the mangle.
在博物館的廚房裡，Lukas 示範給參觀者看怎麼把濕床單送進軋衣機裡。
fixed pattern: [item] through the mangle
Before the spin dryer arrived, every Monday meant hours at the mangle in the back yard.
在脫水機出現以前，每個星期一就代表要在後院的軋衣機旁忙好幾個小時。
common in historical or memoir-style writing
Dario found an old wooden mangle at the village flea market for almost nothing.
Dario 在村裡的跳蚤市場上花了沒幾塊錢，就買到一台舊木製軋衣機。
- an old mangle
- feed [something] through the mangle
- turn the handle of the mangle
- wringer
American English equivalent for the same hand-cranked roller machine
文法句型
[item] through the mangle
用法筆記
Mostly historical or regional (British) — modern households use a washing machine with a spin cycle instead. The figurative phrase 'put through the mangle' (= treat very harshly) builds on this image.
常見錯誤
同根字
- mangled形容詞C1
- mangler名詞C2
常見搭配
常用片語
- put through the mangle
- mangled beyond recognition
介系詞搭配
- in [an accident]
- by [a machine/vehicle]