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 kept bumbling on about his operation, but I didn't really understand all the details.
  他一直含混地大谈手术经过，但对那些细节我根本就听不懂。
• A recent academic study showed that ambitious, Type A personalities are more successful but bumbling Type Bs are at least as happy and live longer.
  近期的一项学术研究显示，充满抱负的A型人格者通常更为成功，而做事迟钝的B型人格者则活得更加开心，寿命也更长久。
• He was a bumbling but well-meaning old gentleman.
  他是个经常出差错但善意的老绅士。
• As they scramble to get away from the bumbling wizard, Clumsy goes the wrong way.
  就在蓝精灵们争相逃脱这位笨手笨脚的巫师的追赶时，笨笨跟大家走散了。
• 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。
• All of the mistakes are the fault of the bumbling Bhiksuni called Jampa Chodron, so please forgive me.
  如果出现任何错漏，都是愚痴的比丘尼强帕的过失，敬请原谅！
• The Tramp, as portrayed by Chaplin, is a bumbling but usually good-hearted character who is most famously presented as a vagrant who endeavors to behave with the manners and dignity of a gentleman despite his actual social status.
  正如卓别林自己描述的那样，流浪汉是个爱装模作样却心地善良的人，尽管他社会地位低下，经常以流浪者身份出现，却经常表现得很绅士。
• 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。
• Neville Longbottom: Neville means "new town." Longbottom is a comical name, perhaps suggesting this bumbling student is chubby or has a "long bottom" that trips him up.
  纳威的意思是“新的城镇”。隆巴顿这个姓氏可能在暗示，他是个胖胖的笨拙的小孩。
• 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。