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

• 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。
• As part of the intrigue, a pair of bumbling Ansionians attempted to kidnap Offee.
  两个不自量力的安森人试图绑架奥菲，这是他们计划当中的一部分。
• 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。
• Like bumbling burglars who leave fingerprints at a crime scene, cooking oils leave their own clues.
  就像笨贼在罪案现场留下的指纹，鉴别食用油也可利用其留下的独特线索。
• 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。
• So I read him unchallenging things, like the misadventures of the bumbling Mullah Nasruddin and his donkey.
  所以我念些不那么有挑战性的东西，比如装腔作势的纳斯鲁丁毛拉和他那头驴子出洋相的故事。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。