Fumble
['fʌmb(ə)l] or ['fʌmbl]
解释:
(noun.) (sports) dropping the ball.
(verb.) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; 'fumble a grounder'.
(verb.) handle clumsily.
(verb.) make one's way clumsily or blindly; 'He fumbled towards the door'.
多拉编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
(v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
(v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
(v. t.) To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
整理:纳特
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Feel about (awkwardly or childishly), make awkward attempts.
手打:莫林
同义词及反义词:
[See BUNGLE]
整理:佩吉
解释:
v.i. to grope about awkwardly: to handle awkwardly: to stammer in speech: to find by groping.—v.t. to manage awkwardly.—n. Fum′bler.—adv. Fum′blingly.
克莉丝汀编辑
例句:
- Don't fumble with it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Rosedale continued to fumble awkwardly with the tea-pot, and she felt sure that he had heard what had been said of her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- She fumbled, and took one. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The friendly little old man shook it heartily, and after a little shower of caution, he took his umbrella, and fumbled his way out of the room. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I got at my spectacles, with some fumbling and difficulty, feeling the Sergeant's dismal eyes fixed on me all the time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I cannot find any knocker, my lord,' said the footman, at our carriage-door, after fumbling about for some time. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I shall say I didn't know you, for you look so grown-up and unlike yourself, I'm quite afraid of you, he said, fumbling at his glove button. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- After much impressive fumbling of keys and opening of locks, the stained and aged document was spread before us. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Well, well, said the honest old man, fumbling in his pocket: I s'pose, perhaps, I an't following my judgment,--hang it, I _won't_ follow my judgment! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
校对:莫蒂默