ungainly
- adj.笨拙的,笨手笨脚的;(举止)不雅观的,难看的;粗俗的,粗劣的
- adv.不优雅地,笨拙地
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- lacking grace in movement or posture
- a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
- clumsy fingers
- what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
- heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
- Synonym: gawky clumsy clunky unwieldy
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- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- an awkward bundle to carry
- a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
- clumsy wooden shoes
- the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
- Synonym: awkward bunglesome clumsy
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He was a tall , ungainly boy of 18 .
他是个个子高而笨拙的18岁小伙子。
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A large or ungainly automobile .
大汽车巨大的或笨拙的汽车。
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Paul swam in his ungainly way to the side of the pool .
保罗笨拙地游到池子边。
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It is often an ungainly , comic endeavour .
那往往是一种笨拙可笑的尝试。
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On land , they 're ungainly , but when they find the right conditions
在陆地,他们很笨拙,但是当他们找到合适的条件
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The next piece of business was to find a name for this ungainly creation .
下一步就是为这个不受待见的产品起个名字了。
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He is as ungainly as a new born calf .
他的姿态就象一头初生的牛犊那样笨拙。
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Moving house does make one feel ungainly and I simply don 't want to be observed in this exposed state .
搬家会让人感到手忙脚乱,我就是不希望别人看到我这种状态。
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On land the turtle is ungainly , but in the water it is very agile .
龟在陆地上行动笨拙,在水里则很灵活。
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But he tends to regard me as an ungainly , trouble causing nuisance .
但是他却想把我看作是个一无是处、惹事生非的讨厌货。
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Turned outward in an ungainly manner . an atom consists of a nucleus around which electrons move .
以难看的样子向外翻转。原子有一个原子核,外面有电子围绕它旋转。
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The tall man wobbled along ungainly .
这高大的男子笨拙地摇晃着向前行进。
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He walked in long ungainly strides .
他迈着笨拙的大步子行走。
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Turned outward in an ungainly manner .
以难看的样子向外翻转。
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I thought him terribly ungainly when he danced .
我觉得他跳舞时显得极其笨拙。
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The poems rhyme too determinedly , ungainly as pairs tied together in a three-legged race .
这些诗的韵脚硬绑绑的,象两人各把一条腿绑在一起参加三腿竞走那样笨拙。
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Through the crowd of ungainly , shabbily dressed actors , Sibyl vane moved like a creature from a finer world .
茜比尔?范在一群其貌不扬,衣着寒酸的演员之间跳着,象一个从哪个美好的世界来的生灵。
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The first two arguments to this rather ungainly call specify the namespace and name of the type we 're adding a property to & in this case , NAMESPACE : Name .
该调用看上去相当复杂,前两个参数指定了我们将为之添加属性的类型的名称空间和名称&在本例中为NAMESPACE:Name。
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LTE smartphones are often ungainly due to the hefty electronics needed to support it . Apple , famous for its sleek design , could have none of that .
但由于LTE芯片比较庞大,所以LTE智能手机常常显得很笨拙,但这当然不会出现在以时尚设计著称的苹果身上。
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He had pitched , as I have said , against the bulwarks , where he lay like some horrible , ungainly sort of puppet ;
我刚才已经说过,他滑到了舷樯旁,像个可怕而丑恶的傀儡一样躺在那里。
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It 's not quite the Lake District but the countryside 's very pretty . The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly without being in any particular manner deformed .
这儿虽说比不上湖区,但郊外的景色倒也十分漂亮.此人的模样,虽说并没有特别的畸型残缺之处,但看上去极不匀称。
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To date , sports bras have largely been ungainly , with all the functional trappings of a maternity bra and little more in the way of stylish design .
此前,运动胸衣总的来说不太优雅,有母性胸衣的种种功能性装饰,却缺少时髦的设计。
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If , on the other hand , America found and followed a native line , the results were bound to be ungainly . Not all accumulations of hydrocarbons are necessarily the result of hydrodynamics .
如若美国另辟蹊径,其结果必然流于粗俗。并不是所有烃类的储集都必然是水动力的结果。
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Like ' planking ' and other absurd Internet trends , the phenomenon has quickly caught on , in no small part because the ungainly flailings of those attempting it make for such sympathetic watching .
和“平板支撑”等奇怪的网上流行趋势一样,这一现象迅速风靡,很大程度上是因为动作尝试者的笨拙表现引来同情的目光。
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Why are some of the greatest thinkers being expelled from their disciplines ? because they are too ungainly or too out of date , Hegel , Marx , and Freud succumb to an academic makeover .
为什么一些最伟大的思想家从各自的学科中被赶出去了?作者认为,可能他们太晦涩难解或者太过时而被赶出自身的领域,屈服于学术界的翻新改造。
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Tall , gaunt and slightly ungainly , in his snakeskin shoes , chunky rings and rakishly well-tailored suits , Cave resembles nothing so much as a postmillennial hybrid of bookie and peer of the realm .
凯夫高大瘦削,稍显不利索,穿着蛇皮鞋,戴着粗大的戒指,穿着精心裁剪、潇洒帅气的西装,看上去不折不扣是千禧年后登记赌注者与贵族的混合体。