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That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career: grafting a sea-locked Bohemia (part of the present-day Czech Republic)in the Winter's Tale.
因?yàn)閺乃膭”究梢钥闯鏊牡乩碇R(shí)實(shí)在是一團(tuán)糟：在《冬天的故事》里會(huì)給地處內(nèi)陸的波希米亞按一個(gè)海岸線。
The media chatter about the book has focused largely on the tedious question of who exactly was to blame for which cock-up during the doomed McCain-Palin presidential campaign.
媒體對(duì)這本書議論紛紛，他們認(rèn)為該書主要圍繞誰該為麥卡恩總統(tǒng)選舉的失敗負(fù)責(zé)這個(gè)老生常談的話題。
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That may account for the most embarrassing geographical cock-up of his career: grafting a sea-coast on to land-locked Bohemia (part of the present-day Czech Republic) in The Winter’s Tale.
因?yàn)閺乃膭”究梢钥闯?，他的地理知識(shí)實(shí)在是一團(tuán)糟：在《冬天的故事》里會(huì)給地處內(nèi)陸的波西米亞（現(xiàn)在的一部分屬于捷克）安一個(gè)海岸線。

The Tories allege that cost-saving imposed by senior officials lay behind the cock-up.
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Yet far from being an imperialist conspiracy, as American officials tell it the base agreement was a bureaucratic cock-up.
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If Republicans are firm believers in conspiracy theory, blaming the British for all the wrong inflicted on the ancient Irish nation, Mr Taylor comes down on the side of the cock-up theory of history.
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