blunder

• vi. 跌跌撞撞地走；犯大錯
• vt. 做錯
• n. 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.
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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。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The government committed a double blunder.

政府重蹈覆轍。

來自柯林斯例句

3. to make a terrible blunder

犯大錯

來自《權威詞典》

4. She cast a sidelong glance at Eric to see if he had noticed her blunder.

她偷偷斜掃了埃裏克一眼，看他有沒有留意到她的錯誤。

來自《權威詞典》

5. I saw that I had been guilty of a careless blunder.

我意識到自己因疏忽而釀成大錯.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》