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

• Its foreign and defence ministries displayed a bumbling incompetence that actively encouraged the Argentine folly.
  外交部和国防部长的无能有力的怂恿了阿根廷的愚蠢。
• A Philosophy of Bending and Self bumbling
  弯腰的哲学
• 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。
• They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over
  他们把我们关进监狱，第二天一个糊涂法官令我们具结保证。
• A recent academic study showed that ambitious, Type A personalities are more successful but bumbling Type Bs are at least as happy and live longer.
  近期的一项学术研究显示，充满抱负的A型人格者通常更为成功，而做事迟钝的B型人格者则活得更加开心，寿命也更长久。
• I've never seen such bumbling incompetence!
  我从未见过如此糟糕无能！
• 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。
• 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。
• Like bumbling burglars who leave fingerprints at a crime scene, cooking oils leave their own clues.
  就像笨贼在罪案现场留下的指纹，鉴别食用油也可利用其留下的独特线索。