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单词 mangle
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mangle
verb
uk
/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
[Toften passive]
todestroysomething bytwistingit withforceortearingit intopiecesso thatitsoriginalformiscompletelychanged:
绞坏；撕烂
Mysweatergot mangled in thewashingmachine.我的毛衣被洗衣机绞坏了。
Hisarmwas mangled in themachine.他的手臂被机器绞得血肉模糊。
[T]
If you mangle aspeechor apieceof writtenwork, you make so manymistakesthat youcompletelyspoilit:
（因错误太多而）损坏，弄糟
As hereadthepoemoutloud, he mangled therhythmsobadlythat ithardlymade anysense.他朗读这首诗时完全不合韵律，致使诗歌听上去毫无意义。
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  • killsomethingoff
  • kill the goose that lays the golden eggidiom
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mangled
mangle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
(alsowringer)
amachineused forpressingwaterout ofclothesby putting theclothesbetween twoheavy,smooth, roundbars
衣物轧干机
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Cleaning clothes
  • airer
  • boil
  • care label
  • cleaner
  • clothes brush
  • clothes horse
  • conditioner
  • delouse
  • handwash
  • iron box
  • ironing
  • ironing board
  • launder
  • spin-dryer
  • starch
  • steam iron
  • trouser press
  • tumble dryer
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(Definition ofmanglefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mangle| American Dictionary

mangle
verb[T]
us
/ˈmæŋ·ɡəl/
todestroysomething bytwistingit withforceortearingit so thatitsoriginalformischanged:
Hiscarwas mangled when itslammedhead-oninto asemitrailertruck.
fig.Thetextwas so mangled intranslationthat it wasimpossibleto besureof themeaning.
(Definition ofmanglefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmangle

mangle
What can it mean tomanglethe specific ideas that each has come to stand for?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Following the lead of early modern composers, who griped that printers mangled their work and printing devalued it, source studies privileged manuscripts over prints.
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The form that was doomed to be so frightfully mangled, was the sight; the immortal creature that was to be so butchered and torn asunder, yielded the sensation.
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The matron was also supposed to deliver food and firewood to the needy in the community, and also to run the letting of amangleto people in the neighbourhood.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The whole purpose of the parliamentarymangle, or anvil, or whatever one calls it, is to discuss exactly such problems.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I am talking about a modern pit, with very expensive equipment, mangling coal.
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One puts common sense through themangle—and heaven knows what will come out at the other end.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Any attempt to control them by a uniform set of rules must risk mangling one of them.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I remember as a boy that my grandmother had amangle.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is rather like having amanglein the house or any other such article.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
But put these elementary and self-evident facts through themangleof your present financial system, and see how they come out.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There was a washingmanglein the middle of the room.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I thought that the trustees would have the government director's fingers well and truly stuck in theirmangle, and a very good thing too.
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Some of these publications even come in via one of these new-fangled mangles.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Among the articles will be found electric kettles, smoothing irons, interval timers, kitchen scales, wringers, and mangles.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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