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

• This suggests that an apology is not cheap talk at all: it represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling.
  这表明，道歉根本不是廉价的磋商：这代表着一种看似可爱但很愚笨的选择。
• Clark Kent, Supermans alter ego is fumbling and bumbling character.
  克拉克肯特，超人的另一个自我是一个支支吾吾的，笨手笨脚的形象。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• He was a bumbling but well-meaning old gentleman.
  他是个经常出差错但善意的老绅士。
• Another adds: He was seen as a credible candidate, not a bumbling fool.
  另一个人补充道：人们都觉得他是靠谱的候选人，而不是笨手笨脚的傻瓜。
• I've never seen such bumbling incompetence!
  我从未见过如此糟糕无能！
• 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。