mangled
adjective uk/ˈmæŋ.ɡəld/ us/ˈmæŋ.ɡəld/
绞坏的;撕烂的
destroyed by being twisted with force or torn into pieces so that the original form is completely changed
All that remains of yesterday's car crash is a pile of mangled metal. 昨天的车祸后只剩下了一堆严重损毁的金属。
(发言、文章)错误过多的
(of a speech, piece of writing, etc.) spoiled by having many mistakes in it
He made fun of his own mangled syntax and grammatical errors. 他拿自己的句法和语法错误打趣。
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- At the city's busy trauma hospitals, bleeding, mangled bodies are commonplace.
- Whole city blocks were leveled, and the rubble and mangled cars pushed to the sides of the streets.
- A bicycle helmet, and his mangled road bike lay near his body at the scene of the accident.
- The newspapers would make fun of his so-called mangled English but the people of Chicago loved it because that's the way most of them spoke.
- Mail often comes addressed to a badly mangled first name, often with a "u" instead of a "v," which doesn't even make sense, she said.
See: mangle