mangle是什么意思

双语用例

• 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.