awkward ['ɔ:kwəd]
参考词典中awkward的常规释义：
基本释义
- a. 笨拙的,不熟练的;使用不便的;尴尬的;难处理的
词形变化
- 名 词：awk'ward·ness副 词：awk'ward·ly
参考例句
- He's an awkward/queer old cuss.
他是个笨手笨脚的[古里古怪的]家伙. - Clumsy and awkward;ungainly.
笨拙的和不灵敏的;不雅的 - The pan is an awkward shape.
这个锅的形状用起来不方便。 - He asked several awkward questions at the press conference.
他在记者招待会上提了几个难回答的问题。 - The children liked to jeer at the awkward student.
孩子们喜欢嘲笑笨拙的学生。
- He's an awkward/queer old cuss.
英英解释
6个形容词解释
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
[反] graceful
[例]- an awkward dancer
- an awkward gesture
- too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes
- his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot
- causing inconvenience
[例]- they arrived at an awkward time
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- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
[同] awkward, bunglesome, ungainly, clumsy
[例]- an awkward bundle to carry
- a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
- clumsy wooden shoes
- the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
- not elegant or graceful in expression
[同] cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept, awkward, clumsy
[例]- an awkward prose style
- a clumsy apology
- his cumbersome writing style
- if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
[同] embarrassing, awkward, sticky, unenviable
[例]- awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion
- an awkward pause followed his remark
- a sticky question
- in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for th
- not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner
[同] ill at ease, awkward, uneasy
[例]- awkward and reserved at parties
- ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
- was always uneasy with strangers
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