Awkward
['ɔːkwəd] or ['ɔkwɚd]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; 'awkward and reserved at parties'; 'ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know'; 'was always uneasy with strangers' .
(adj.) causing inconvenience; 'they arrived at an awkward time' .
(adj.) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; 'awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion'; 'an awkward pause followed his remark'; 'a sticky question'; 'in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign' .
(adj.) not elegant or graceful in expression; 'an awkward prose style'; 'a clumsy apology'; 'his cumbersome writing style'; 'if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?' .
(adj.) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; 'an awkward dancer'; 'an awkward gesture'; 'too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes'; 'his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot' .
(adj.) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; 'an awkward bundle to carry'; 'a load of bunglesome paraphernalia'; 'clumsy wooden shoes'; 'the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl' .
艾弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.
(a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
(a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.[2]. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.[3]. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.
卡里校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Ungainly, clownish, clumsy, maladroit, unhandy, uncouth, rough, boorish,bungling, gawky
ANT:Neat, clever, dexterous, skilful, adroit, handy
錄入:露西
解釋/意思:
adj. clumsy: ungraceful: embarrassed: difficult to deal with: (Shak.) unfavourable: (obs.) froward.—adj. Awk′wardish.—adv. Awk′wardly clumsily embarrassingly dangerously.—n. Awk′wardness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Had you been rustic, clownish, awkward, I should have been content. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Their situation was awkward enough; but _hers_ she thought was still worse. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I see you are accustomed to wearing kid gloves--but some gentlemen are so awkward about putting them on. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I only know he is a very foolish vain fellow, and put my dear little girl into a very painful and awkward position last night. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As for his own inadequate English, he was much too awkward to try it at all. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Criminology (to use an awkward word) is finding a human center. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I felt I was so awkward, she replied, that I made up my mind to be improved in that respect at all events and to learn to dance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What made you sit in such an awkward position? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Fred felt an awkward movement of the heart; he had not thought of desk-work; but he was in a resolute mood, and not going to shrink. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Don't cry, he said, awkward not only from the load. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It was an awkward corner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It is an awkward meeting, said she; but such is my fortune. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He falters an awkward excuse or two for his failure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I have advised a prodigious number of clients, and have dealt with some exceedingly awkward difficulties, in my time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I gave them an undertaking on which they sent down your discharge; it's very awkward, my dear Sir; what will you do? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He seems a very silent, awkward, bashful lad, said Miss Crawley to Mr. Pitt. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It may have been the fault of the circumstances, which were awkward at the very least. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It is always awkward doing business with an alias. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I am only at an awkward turning. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Awkward enough, I'm sure. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I fearI am an awkward fool: I must manage badly in some way, for where I wish to please, it seems I don't please. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She is much annoyed at her awkward position. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I think, sir,' said Mortimer, breaking the awkward silence with his airy self-possession, 'that you did me the honour to mention my name? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Everyone appeared to feel that a parting of that sort was an awkward thing, and that the nearer it approached, the more awkward it was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- For instance, consider how few and comparatively awkward were the mechanical means before this century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- She gave him a low, grave bow when he left, and he felt more awkward and self-conscious in every limb than he had ever done in all his life before. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Emma said it would be awkward; Mrs. Weston was in distress about the supper; and Mr. Woodhouse opposed it earnestly, on the score of health. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He could not well negotiate the trees with his awkward burden, but he kept to the trails, and so made fairly good time. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was a very awkward moment; and the countenance of each shewed that it was so. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Irritable he was; one heard thatas he apostrophized with vehemence the awkward squad under his orders. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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