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

• 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。
• Another adds: He was seen as a credible candidate, not a bumbling fool.
  另一个人补充道：人们都觉得他是靠谱的候选人，而不是笨手笨脚的傻瓜。
• 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。
• He kept bumbling on about something.
  他结结巴巴地说个不停。
• He has often been portrayed as Holmes 'rather bumbling assistant.
  作为福尔摩斯的助手，他通常被刻画成一个笨手笨脚的人。
• 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。
• Neville Longbottom: Neville means "new town." Longbottom is a comical name, perhaps suggesting this bumbling student is chubby or has a "long bottom" that trips him up.
  纳威的意思是“新的城镇”。隆巴顿这个姓氏可能在暗示，他是个胖胖的笨拙的小孩。
• 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。
• I've never seen such bumbling incompetence!
  我从未见过如此糟糕无能！
• 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。