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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Instead, cocky types are more likely to win their hearts, with Simon Cowell's arrogant attitude more appealing than Hugh Grant's bumbling on-screen behaviour.
  相反，自大的男人更容易赢得美人心，傲慢的西蒙（《英国达人》评委，编者按）就比荧幕上老实的休·格兰特更受欢迎。
• You were such a bumbling novice, right?
  你这么笨手笨脚新手，对不对？
• 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。
• 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。
• But while Americans were able to find solace in the heroism of New York fire fighters, the people of Hong Kong were instead shocked by the bumbling rescue operation.
  然而，如果说美国人能够在纽约消防员的英勇行为中找到慰藉，香港人却只能对笨拙的救援行动感到震惊。
• 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。
• He was a bumbling but well-meaning old gentleman.
  他是个经常出差错但善意的老绅士。