bumbling

英 [ˈbʌmblɪŋ]

美 [ˈbʌmblɪŋ]

adj.  笨手笨脚的(常马虎出错)
v.  笨手笨脚; 跌跌撞撞
bumble的现在分词

现在分词：bumbling　

BNC.39422 / COCA.26686

牛津词典

adj.

• 笨手笨脚的（常马虎出错）
  behaving in an awkward confused way, often making careless mistakes

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 笨手笨脚的；常出错的
  If you describe a person or their behaviour asbumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
  1. ...a clumsy, bumbling, inarticulate figure.
     一个笨手笨脚、经常出错、吐字不清的人物

双语例句

• He was a bumbling but well-meaning old gentleman.
  他是个经常出差错但善意的老绅士。
• The old man kept bumbling on about how the accident occurred.
  老人喃喃不清地叙述着事故的起因。
• His bumbling caused many a headache to city officials in Otoh Gunga, especially Captain Tarpals.
  他的笨手笨脚让奥托冈加的许多官员都感到头疼，特别是塔帕尔斯队长。
• Find him another teacher; I am fed up with his bumbling stupidity.
  另给他找位老师吧，对他的愚笨我已经厌透了。
• But while Americans were able to find solace in the heroism of New York fire fighters, the people of Hong Kong were instead shocked by the bumbling rescue operation.
  然而，如果说美国人能够在纽约消防员的英勇行为中找到慰藉，香港人却只能对笨拙的救援行动感到震惊。
• A Philosophy of Bending and Self bumbling
  弯腰的哲学
• Surely, it takes much more restraint and far more faith in one's readers to place the full heft of a book in the bumbling hands of an unreliable first person.
  不过要把叙述整部作品的重任都放到不可靠的第一人称叙事者那摇晃的肩膀上去，也的确需要作家的自我克制，和对读者的信任。
• To most British voters, Ronald Reagan was a bumbling actor with primitive instincts and dangerous powers.
  对大多数英国选民来说，罗纳德里根（ronaldreagan）是一个有着原始本能和危险权力的装模作样的演员。
• He has often been portrayed as Holmes 'rather bumbling assistant.
  作为福尔摩斯的助手，他通常被刻画成一个笨手笨脚的人。
• This suggests that an apology is not cheap talk at all: it represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling.
  这表明，道歉根本不是廉价的磋商：这代表着一种看似可爱但很愚笨的选择。