Ungainly
[ʌn'geɪnlɪ] or [ʌn'ɡenli]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.
(a.) Unsuitable; unprofitable.
(adv.) In an ungainly manner.
錄入:凯思琳
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Clumsy, awkward, uncouth, uncourtly, inelegant, clownish, boorish, gawky, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, slouching, ungraceful, stiff, constrained.
整理:弗娜
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Clumsy, awkward, lumbering, uncouth,[See FRUITFUL]
整理:内莉
解釋/意思:
adj. awkward: clumsy: uncouth.—adv. in an awkward manner.—n. Ungain′liness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I'm just something very ungainly that you've married. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- He lisped--he was very plain and homely-looking: and exceedingly awkward and ungainly. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You know he is as ungainly within as without. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Of an ungainly make was Sloppy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- One described it as an ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The ungainly piece of honesty beamed and blushed as he said it, quite enraptured with the remembrance of having been serviceable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To reverence Washington they wear a powdered wig; they do honor to Lincoln by cultivating awkward hands and ungainly feet. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
校對:西尔玛