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

• 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 kept bumbling on about something.
  他结结巴巴地说个不停。
• 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 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 bumbling mechanic; a bungling performance; ham-handed governmental interference; could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature-mary h.vorse.
  笨手笨脚的技工；笨手笨脚的表演；政府笨拙的干涉；那些穷人笨手笨脚的，几乎不能将煤斗中的灰弄干净玛丽h弗斯。
• He was a bumbling but well-meaning old gentleman.
  他是个经常出差错但善意的老绅士。
• 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。
• 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。
• I've never seen such bumbling incompetence!
  我从未见过如此糟糕无能！
• 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。