ungainly
adj. 笨拙的；不雅的
adv. 笨拙地；不雅地
adj.
难看的；不雅的；别扭的；笨拙的
英英释义
ungainly[ ,ʌn'ɡeinli ]
adj.
lacking grace in movement or posture
"a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"
同义词：gawkyclumsyclunkyunwieldy
difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
"the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
同义词：awkwardbunglesomeclumsy
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
He walked in long ungainly strides.
他迈着笨拙的大步子行走。
I thought him terribly ungainly when he danced.
我觉得他跳舞极其难看。
权威例句
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ungainly (adj.)
1610s, "unfit, improper," from Middle English ungeinliche, from ungein (late 14c.) "inconvenient, disagreeable, troublesome," from un- (1) "not" + gein "kind, helpful; reliable; beneficial; suitable, appropriate; convenient," from Old Norse gegn "straight, direct, helpful," from Proto-Germanic *gagina "against" (see again). Old English had ungænge "useless, vain."
1. 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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2. He walked in long ungainly strides.
他迈著笨拙的大步子行走。
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3. 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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4. The dog, an ungainly mongrel pup , was loping about the road.
那只丑陋的杂种幼犬在马路上到处乱跑。
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5. It is often an ungainly, comic endeavour .
那往往是一种笨拙可笑的尝试。
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6. It was an ungainly-looking vehicle. mounted on bicycle wheels and driven by a rubber but that connected the engine to the rear wheels.
这辆车样子笨拙，架在自行车轮子上并靠一根胶皮带将发动机与后车轮相连。
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7. It was an ungainly-looking vehicle, mounted on bicycle wheels and driven by a rubber belt that connected the engine to the rear wheels.
这辆车样子笨拙，架在自行车轮子上并靠一根胶皮带将发动机与后车轮相连。
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8. It was an ungainly-looking vehicle, mounted on bicycle wheels and driven by a rubber belt that connected the engine to the rear wheels.
这辆车样子笨拙，架在自行车轮子上并靠一根胶皮带将发动机与后车轮相连。
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9. On land the turtle is ungainly, but in the water it isvery agile.
龟在陆地上行动笨拙, 在水里则很灵活.
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10. It is often an ungainly, comic endeavour.
那往往是一种笨拙可笑的尝试。
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11. 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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12. When the ungainly man had left, he remarked hotly to the messenger.
看着这个无能的人走开以后，他气冲冲地对着送信人评头品足起来。
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13. We shall prove the following ungainly technical lemma.
我们来证明下面的冗长的技术性的引理。
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14. 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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15. The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly without being in any particular manner deformed.
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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16. 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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17. the ungainly walk of a goose [gorilla]
鹅 [猩猩] 的笨拙走步
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18. 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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