| 单词 | botcher |
| 例句 | Tink′ler: the act of doing tinker's work: a botcher or bungler: a botch or bungle: a young mackerel.—v.t. to repair, esp. unskilfully.—v.i. to do tinker's work: to make a botch or mess of anything. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z But to prevent this botcher of a tailor spoiling it, I will make it myself with closed doors, so that no one sees me. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z I know of no species of vandals worse, more primitive or more irresponsible than these botchers. Book Repair and Restoration “I’m laughing to think how lucky you are for a rank beginner an’ botcher!” said Rathburn as they began to eat. The Coyote A Western Story A certain critic finds fault with Circe because she repeats the warning of Tiresias, and he holds that some botcher or editor, not Homer, transferred the passage from one place to the other. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary That was when the barracks was building, and one day a bit of a newspaper blowed over from the officers' quarters, and 2001 came on it, and the botcher picked it up. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher. Flamsted quarries The drive master’s haste indicated that she had been betrayed by the sullen botcher of methods. Joan of Arc of the North Woods They have been considered as botchers of rags and remnants; their diligence has not been accompanied by judgment; and their taste inclined more to the frivolous than to the useful. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 He was a remarkable man, though a mere botcher at his trade; for he could never manage to make his customers’ clothes fit their bodies. Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures Heare what it is to be Anabaptists, to bee puritans, to be villaines, you may be counted illuminate botchers for a while, but your end wil be Good people pray for me. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse There was never a better workman than he—while I am only a ‘botcher’—and so generous and good-natured, wearing his heart on his sleeve. Ten Tales Our genteel botchers, well I see, Have given the maxims that you follow. Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe If I'm a botcher, it's 'cos my father and my grandfather were botchers before me. Light I take him to have been a botcher up of old plays. Venetia People have often said of me, not to my face, but behind my back, that in most things I was but a botcher and a bungler. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Rachel was a botcher and a bungler, a very cobbler, beside Anne Turner. She Stands Accused In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher. Literary Blunders His humble trade as a botcher does not allow a fixed tariff, and he is all alone as he vindicates the value of his work. Light The world has judged: the Odyssey is a marvel of construction: therefore is not the work of a late botcher of disparate materials, but of a great early poet. Homer and His Age It is an ignorant zeal that haunts him, sir; But truly, else, a very faithful brother, A botcher, and a man, by revelation, That hath a competent knowledge of the truth. The Alchemist I know him: he was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child: a dumb innocent that could not say him nay. All's Well That Ends Well Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Twelfth Night; or What You Will I may be a botcher in life, but I'm for peace and order. Light Mine earnest vehement botcher, And deacon also, I cannot dispute with you: But if you get you not away the sooner, I shall confute you with a cudgel. The Alchemist |
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