英 [ˈkɒk ʌp]
搞砸：指犯错误或搞糟某事情。
cockup /ˈkɒkˌʌp/
名词 something done badly 一团糟
动词 (of an animal) to raise (its ears), esp in an alert manner (尤指动物警戒地)竖起耳朵等
There's been a bit of a cock-up over the travel arrangements.
旅行安排出了点儿岔子。
The world's second largest chip shop admitted that it had made huge mistakes getting Barcelona to market, and that production cock-ups and core limitations delayed the launch by up to eight months.
这家世界第二大的芯片生产商承认，在将巴塞罗那推向市场时，他们犯下了巨大的错误：产品错误和核心的限制，使得产品延期达8个月之久！
“I screwed up,” Barack Obama said with spectacular candour of some of his executive appointments this week, before specifying that the point of saying so was to prevent similar cock-ups in the future.
“我搞砸了。” 巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)本周谈到他提名的一些高官时非常坦诚地如是说道，事前详细说清楚是为了防止以后还有类似的错误出现。
Wayne David, Labour MP for Caerphilly, told BBC Radio Wales the non-declaration of donations was a "huge cock up" but there was "no question at all about Peter Hain being a man of integrity and transparent honesty".
You can only imagine Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin's reaction when he discovered there had been a catastrophic cock-up over the West Coast franchise.
There is a chance, of course, that Amazon cock this up so spectacularly that self-publishers and publisher leave in droves and the whole enterprise collapses.