2017年2月3日 星期五

botched. botch-up, implement, touchback, Situation Room









The Seahawks benefited from the same Fail Mary play three years ago.

Ball intentionally batted out of end zone by LB K.J. Wright should've given…
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Pakistan's Censors Target YouTube, Trigger Brief World-Wide Outage
By JANE SPENCER
Service on Google Inc.'s YouTube site was disrupted around the world for several hours Sunday after a botched effort by the Pakistan government to block access to a video clip critical of Islam.
AMD apologized for botching its handling of a high-end chip line and said it plans to implement cost-cutting moves.


Touchback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchback

In American football, a touchback is a ruling which is made and signaled by an official when the ball becomes dead on or behind a team's own goal line (i.e., in an end zone) and the opposing team gave the ball the momentum, or impetus, to travel over or across the goal line.

In a Baghdad courthouse, Mr. Hussein, in his customary black suit, remained seated as the judge read the verdict finding him guilty of ordering the killings of 148 Shiite-Arab civilians as retribution for a botched 1982 assassination attempt against him in the town of Dujail.

retribution 報應;懲罰


Situation Room 戰情室

botch(-up) 
noun [C] (UK ALSO bodge(-up))
The company made a series of botches before it went bankrupt.
The concert was very badly organized. In fact, the whole thing was a real botch-up. ━━ v. へたに繕う; だいなしにする ((up)).
━━ n. つぎはぎ; 不細工 (botch-up).
botch・er ━━ n. 下手な人.
botch・y ━━ a. まずい.







botch 
verb [T] (UK ALSO bodge)
to spoil something by doing it badly:
We botched (up) our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.

botched 
adjective (UK ALSO bodged)
Our landlord redecorated the bedroom, but it was such a botched job (= it was so badly done) that we decided to redo it.
Thousands of women are infertile as a result of botched abortions.

botch(-up) 
noun [C] (UK ALSO bodge(-up))
The company made a series of botches before it went bankrupt.
The concert was very badly organized. In fact, the whole thing was a real botch-up.


im・ple・ment


n.
  1. A tool or instrument used in doing work: a gardening implement. See synonyms at tool.
  2. An article used to outfit or equip.
  3. A means of achieving an end; an instrument or agent.
tr.v., -ment·ed, -ment·ing, -ments. (-mĕnt')
  1. To put into practical effect; carry out: implement the new procedures.
  2. To supply with implements.
[Middle English, supplementary payment, from Old French emplement, act of filling, from Late Latin implēmentum, from Latin implēre, to fill up : in-, intensive pref.; see in–2 + plēre, to fill.]
implementation im'ple·men·ta'tion (-mən-tā'shən, -mĕn-) n.
implementer im'ple·ment'er or im'ple·men'tor n.
━━ n. (仕上げるための)道具, 用具; 手段; 手先.
━━ vt. 道具を与える; なし遂げる, (復讐などを)実行する; (法律・条約などを)実施[履行]する; 【コンピュータ】実装する.
im・ple・men・ta・tion ━━ n. 遂行, 履行, 実施; 【コンピュータ】実現方法, 実装.


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