And so I say, when I see you with anything on your mind, that I feel quite sorry you haven't got somebody better about you than a blundering young rough-and-tough boy like me, uncle, but hasn't got the way. 所以我说,当我看到你有什么心事的时候,我就感到非常难受,除了我这样常常出乱子的粗鲁小伙子之外,你跟前就没有一个更好的人了。
I've made an awful blunder. 我做了一件大错特错的事。
I would often float unintentionally into strange houses, blundering about like a drunk in zero G. 我常常会无意间飘浮进陌生的房子,像醉汉一样跌跌撞撞。
Blunder \Blun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blundered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blundering}.] [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.] 1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. --Swift.
2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. --Goldsmith.
Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. --Dryden.
{To blunder on}. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.
Blundering \Blun"der*ing\, a. Characterized by blunders.
By contrast, the chancellor is big, blundering and boring.
With Alan Partridge makes its transition to television (Friday, 10.00-10.30pm, BBC2) with the eponymous spoof chat show host blundering his way through more interviews in a set modelled on the lobby of a 'top international hotel'.