awkward的意思|awkward的解释-里氏词典

awkward ['ɔkwɚd]

a. 笨拙的, 棘手的

At the formal party I felt very awkward and out of place.
在正式的舞会上，我感到局促不安，很不自在。
Your refusal puts me in an awkward predicament.
你的拒绝让我感到十分为难。
The heavy ax was awkward to use.
这把重斧头不好用。

awkward

[ adj ]

lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance

<adj.all>

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

<adj.all>

they arrived at an awkward time

difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

<adj.all>

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

<adj.all>

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

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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 the climax of the campaign

socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

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awkward and reserved at parties

ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know

was always uneasy with strangers

Awkward \Awk"ward\ ([add]k"we[~e]rd), a. [Awk + -ward.]
1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of
instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting
ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as,
he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.

And dropped an awkward courtesy. --Dryden.

2. Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.

A long and awkward process. --Macaulay.

An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is
difficult to adjust. --C. J. Smith.

3. Perverse; adverse; untoward. [Obs.] ``Awkward
casualties.'' ``Awkward wind.'' --Shak.

O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion,
do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel.
--Udall.

Syn: Ungainly; unhandy; clownish; lubberly; gawky; maladroit;
bungling; inelegant; ungraceful; unbecoming.

Usage: {Awkward}, {Clumsy}, {Uncouth}. Awkward has a special
reference to outward deportment. A man is clumsy in
his whole person, he is awkward in his gait and the
movement of his limbs. Clumsiness is seen at the first
view. Awkwardness is discovered only when a person
begins to move. Hence the expressions, a clumsy
appearance, and an awkward manner. When we speak
figuratively of an awkward excuse, we think of a lack
of ease and grace in making it; when we speak of a
clumsy excuse, we think of the whole thing as coarse
and stupid. We apply the term uncouth most frequently
to that which results from the lack of instruction or
training; as, uncouth manners; uncouth language.
※ -- {Awk"ward*ly}
([add]k"we[~e]rd*l[y^]), adv. -- {Awk"ward*ness}, n.

A needlessly wide second-floor balcony-terrace jogs around an awkward, unused first-floor courtyard full of trees in concrete boxes.
Baby-face Tony Dow as Wally joins his old high-school buddies in a hopelessly awkward romp through a time warp, each playing the same role he or she perfected 20 years ago.
The prime minister has shown himself a skilful ringmaster in the often awkward squabblings of cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats.
It carries hanging bunches of white flowers, in its better forms, and it comes at that awkward moment in late May. I will report on progress. Monet, I suspect, would say that the answer was obvious and the correct decision is to plant more wisterias.
He is described as "an awkward little machine," "a trusting, cheerful pet," but aside from a few indications that he resembles Mack we never really get a sense of what Randall looks like.
The authorities could still face some awkward decisions in the weeks to come. After their emphatic determination to defend sterling with higher rates if necessary, it would be all the harder for them to duck a challenge from the exchange markets.
This chapter focuses on one big accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand, that found itself in the awkward position of realizing that the more it cut its previous audit fee to meet competition, the more the audit client would feel it "pigged out in the past."
The Israeli government and its influential lobby find themselves in an awkward position: they oppose a move by a number of pro-Israeli senators to block a $7.5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
Walesa sipped champagne for the TV cameras and gave an awkward but affectionate kiss to his wife Danuta at the insistence of photographers.
A few moments of awkward silence passed.
The pacing is awkward and often stagy, particularly during long explanatory soliloquies that simply don't play well on film.
Just as a leap of two or three feet seems easy when you are only a foot from the ground, the traverse from the Col des Trifides would, elsewhere, be merely awkward. 'I don't like the look of this Olivier,' I said.
"It's an awkward time to try and fill board seats because of the transition between the new and old owner of our shares," Mr. Atkins said.
In what now seems a case of awkward timing, moreover, Mr. Raab and five vice presidents unloaded tens of thousands of Genentech shares early last year when the stock was at $30 to $45 a share.
Mr. Alsop questions, for instance, Apple's decision to design an awkward trackball device into the notebooks; it would be used as a pointing device instead of a mouse, which is standard on Apple's desktop models but doesn't travel well.
Trade publications, such as Advertising Age, have panned the ads, saying that Mr. Thomas is stiff and awkward, but polls conducted in July by the Gallup Organization show that the ads have increased consumer awareness.
Bush's other diplomatic meeting of the day seemed more awkward, yet demonstrated the lengths the president is willing to go to force Iraq's withdrawal.
"It's just awkward," he said.
Nevertheless, the careful U.S. response is creating some awkward moments for Mr. Bush.
Two Geer clients, BASF Corp. and Paddington Corp., said they were committed to staying with Geer despite its president's awkward departure.
That, of course, put traders in the familiar but still awkward position of seeming to applaud an increase in the unemployment rate, in this case to 5.6 percent in August from 5.4 percent in July.
But these still require access to a fixed telephone line which can make their use while on the move awkward.
The awkward Romeo is eager to set the record straight on a few other points: He doesn't wear designer clothes or go to restaurants that refer to themselves as "bistro."
That way there would be no awkward complaints from the public, and there would be enough left over for all the trappings of tycoonery.
THE SLUMP in the UK property market continues to pose awkward questions for holders of bonds issued by property companies and developers. The downturn is still eating into the credit quality of issuers.
'A six-year term may be too long for that.' Like two rather awkward dancing partners, Malaysia and Australia are doing the diplomatic waltz again.
So many awkward turns of phrase?
But the drag queen scene is just as awkward; like the rape, it sets up far more questions than Harvey seems to realise.
The APVs, expected by GM officials to mount a serious challenge to Chrysler's minivans, afford an awkward forward view because of their steeply sloping noses.
A new lease of life for Mr Ciampi, who has been placed in an awkward position by the manoeuvrings, could postpone the polls long enough to give the divided centre more time to regroup and fend off challenges from the PDS and the League.

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