1[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]WALK to move in an unsteady way, as if you cannot see properly 踉踉跄跄地走,跌跌撞撞
blunder about/around
Someone was blundering about in the kitchen.
有人在厨房里四处瞎撞。
blunder into/past/through etc something
Phil came blundering down the stairs.
菲尔跌跌撞撞地跑下楼梯。
2[intransitiveI]MISTAKE to make a big mistake, especially because you have been careless or stupid 犯愚蠢的错误;出娄子
They blundered badly when they gave him the job.
他们犯了大错,让他做这份工作。
3[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake 误入〔某地〕;不小心陷入〔困境〕
blunder into
Somehow we blundered into the war.
我们不知怎么地就卷入了这场战争。
blunder in
He would have agreed if you hadn’t blundered in.
要不是你冒冒失失跑进来,他都已经同意了。
Examples from the Corpus
blunder• On occasion even the latter have lost their usual reticence and blundered.• To be raped is one thing, but to blunder around disorientated is another.• He realized he had blundered by picking such an experienced player for the team.• The government later admitted it had blundered in its handling of the affair.• They turned a corner and blundered into a group of soldiers.• On the second night out of Hong Kong we blundered into the middle of a fishingfleet working close inshore.• You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easytarget for any animal seekingfreshmeat.• He developed the photographs himself, blundering round the bathroom in the pitchdark.• A moththudded into the parchmentlampshade and blundered round, trying to escape.• Police admitted that they blundered when they let Wylie go.
blunder about/around• To be raped is one thing, but to blunder around disorientated is another.• He realized his blunder about eight minutes before his scheduled 7: 36 a. m. tee time.• Until we do, we shall be blundering about in the dark.• They're blundering about like a ship in the fog, with no terms of reference to steer by.• ForestGoblinshamans are prone to run off dizzily, or just blunder about, unable to distinguish fact from venom-induced fiction.
ADJECTIVE | ... OF BLUNDERS | VERB + BLUNDERADJECTIVE➤big, colossal, great, huge, major大錯;重大失誤◇one of the greatest policy blunders in history歷史上最大的政策失誤之一➤serious, terrible, tragic嚴重的/糟糕的/可悲的錯誤▸➤strategic, tactical戰略/戰術失誤▸➤policy, political政策/政治錯誤▸➤administrative, bureaucratic (both especially BrE) 管理上的/官僚主義的錯誤... OF BLUNDERS➤series一連串錯誤VERB + BLUNDER➤commit, make犯錯誤◇The president has made a series of political blunders.總統在政治上連續犯錯。