flub [fl?b]

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1. 搞壞（動詞,，非正式用語）；

2. 搞砸（非正式用語）

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1. (verb, INFORMAL) To do badly; to ruin unintentionally; to bungle.

2. (noun, INFORMAL) A clumsy error; a blunder.

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EXAMPLE 1: Although I was well prepared for my job interview, I was so nervous that I think I flubbed it.

雖然對求職面試做了精心的準備,，但因為太緊張,，我感覺還是搞砸了。

EXAMPLE 2: Although my brother is a brilliant engineer, he's often rude, and makes many social flubs that anger his employers.

雖然我兄弟是聰明的工程師,，但待人總是不禮貌,，犯過很多為人處事方面的錯誤，惹惱了他的雇主,。

nervous Nellie

緊張過度的人

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An unreasonably nervous person. (NOTE: sometimes "nervous Nelly")

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EXAMPLE: My brother is a real nervous Nellie who worries about everything unnecessarily.

我兄弟緊張過度,，總是不必要地擔心一切事情。