blunder

1. 不太烂的, 不烂的.

founder蹒跚,绊倒。
flounder挣扎,踉跄。
blunder踉跄地走。
2. blind => blunder: 就是形容那种走路、做事不长眼睛的人。
3. => stumble about blindly.
4. 谐音“步踉跄儿、步啷当儿”。

blunder 大错

词源同blind, 眼盲的。

blunder

blunder: [14] When blunder first entered the language, it meant ‘stumble around blindly, bumping into things’, which gives a clue to its possible ultimate connection with blind. Its probable source was Old Norse blundra ‘shut one’s eyes’, forerunner of Swedish blunda and Norwegian blunda (Jon Blund is the Swedish equivalent of ‘the sandman’), and very likely a descendant of Indo-European *bhlendhos, from which blind comes. The first record of the modern sense ‘foolish mistake’ comes in Edward Phillips’s The new world of English words 1706.
=> blind

blunder (v.)

mid-14c., "to stumble about blindly," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blundra "shut one's eyes," from PIE root *bhlendh- (see blind). Meaning "make a stupid mistake" is first recorded 1711. Related: Blundered; blundering.

blunder (n.)

mid-14c., apparently from blunder (v.), though of about the same age.

1. It had been a monumental blunder to give him the assign-ment.

当时把这项任务给他是大错特错了。

2. The government committed a double blunder.

政府重蹈覆辙。

3. to make a terrible blunder

犯大错

4. She cast a sidelong glance at Eric to see if he had noticed her blunder.

她偷偷斜扫了埃里克一眼，看他有没有留意到她的错误。

5. I saw that I had been guilty of a careless blunder.

我意识到自己因疏忽而酿成大错.

【mistake, flaw, shortcoming, error, defect, slip, fault, blunder】
这组词都有“错误”的意思，其区别是：
mistake: 最普通用词，泛指思想上、行为上或认识上的判断或理解方面的错误。
flaw: 指结构或组织上的缺点，如破裂之处。用作比喻意义时，指品格上的缺陷。
shortcoming: 指没有达到所要求的标准、没有充分发展或没尽到职责的不足、缺点或短处。多用复数形式。
error: 指思想或行动背离正题轨道或没有得到正确指引而出现的偏差或错误。
defect: 普通用词。指表面上的缺陷，或指人或物本质上的缺点。
slip: 指因疏忽或无意而造成的差错。
fault: 一般指小并且可宽容的缺点、错误。
blunder: 通常指由于无知或情况不明造成判断或行动上的大错。