0 to crush to pieces -- meremukkan
1 to spoil (eg a piece of music) by bad mistakes etc -- merosak
2 to put (clothing etc) through a mangle. -- memerah
3 a machine with rollers for squeezing water out of wet clothes etc. -- mesin pemerah
What can it mean to mangle the specific ideas that each has come to stand for?
Following the lead of early modern composers, who griped that printers mangled their work and printing devalued it, source studies privileged manuscripts over prints.
The form that was doomed to be so frightfully mangled, was the sight; the immortal creature that was to be so butchered and torn asunder, yielded the sensation.
The matron was also supposed to deliver food and firewood to the needy in the community, and also to run the letting of a mangle to people in the neighbourhood.
The whole purpose of the parliamentary mangle, or anvil, or whatever one calls it, is to discuss exactly such problems.
I am talking about a modern pit, with very expensive equipment, mangling coal.
One puts common sense through the mangle—and heaven knows what will come out at the other end.
Any attempt to control them by a uniform set of rules must risk mangling one of them.
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絞壞, 撕爛, (因錯誤太多而)損壞,弄糟…
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绞坏, 撕烂, (因错误太多而)损坏,弄糟…
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destrozar, mutilar, rodillo…
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estraçalhar, mutilar, estragar…
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écraser, mutiler, massacrer…
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rozbít, pokazit, mandlovat…
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ødelægge, mishandle, rulle…
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meremuk, merusak, memeras…
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