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adj. 尴尬的；笨拙的；棘手的；不合适的
adj.
令人尴尬的；难对付的；不方便的；笨拙的
双语释义
adj.(形容词)令人尴尬的; 使人难堪的 making you feel embarrassed; not comfortable, relaxed, or confident
难对付的; 难处理的 difficult to deal with; difficult to deal with and embarrassing
不方便的 not convenient; difficult to use or handle
(因形状、设计而)产生困难的,危险的 difficult or dangerous because of its shape or design
不优美的; 难看的; 不舒适的 not graceful; not comfortable; slightly wrong and not attractive or graceful
英英释义
awkward[ 'ɔ:kwəd ]
adj.
causing inconvenience
"they arrived at an awkward time"
lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
"an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
"an awkward bundle to carry"
同义词：bunglesomeclumsyungainly
not elegant or graceful in expression
"an awkward prose style"
同义词：clumsycumbersomeinaptineptill-chosen
hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
"awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"
同义词：embarrassingstickyunenviable
not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner
"awkward and reserved at parties"
同义词：ill at ease(p)uneasy
词汇搭配
用作形容词 (adj.)
～+名词
awkward child笨拙的孩子
awkward customer难以应付的人
awkward drawing粗劣的图画
awkward excuse拙劣的借口
awkward instrument使用不便的工具
awkward method难以掌握的方法
awkward position尴尬的处境
awkward posture不雅的姿势
awkward question棘手的问题
awkward situation尴尬的境遇
awkward staircase不便上下的楼梯
～+介词
awkward at在…方面技巧拙劣的
awkward at tennis网球技术很差
awkward for对…不便的
awkward in在…方面技巧拙劣的
awkward in one's movements动作笨拙
awkward with与…一起感到不自在的,用…笨拙的
awkward with a needle and thread使用针线很笨拙
awkward with children和孩子在一起感到局促不安
awkward with sb's hand某人的手工活儿很笨拙
同近义词辨析
sensible, conscious, awkward, aware, clumsy这组词都有“笨拙的”的意思，其区别是：
sensible 侧重通过直觉或理性感觉意识到某物的存在。 awkward, clumsy
conscious指内心的感觉，强调深刻的心理活动。
awkward侧重缺乏优雅、机敏和技巧。用于物时，指使用不便。
aware强调通过耳闻目睹或感觉而得到的信息，也指敏税的观察和推断。侧重感知，多与of一起用。
clumsy指人时，侧重行动笨拙；指物时，侧重制作粗陋或体积、重量过大而呈现笨重。
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
It's a little awkward, because he's my friend but I'm still his boss.
他是我朋友,而我又是他老板,这真有点尴尬。
He felt awkward and uncomfortable.
他感到尴尬和不舒服。
He seemed as awkward and rough as ever.
他跟从前一样拙笨和粗鲁。
Swans are surprisingly awkward on the land.
天鹅在陆地上笨的出奇。
The handle of this teapot has an awkward shape.
这茶壶把儿的形状真别扭。
The heavy ax was awkward to use.
这把重斧头不好用。
权威例句
Subsidies, hierarchy and peers: the awkward economics of higher educationTackling the Awkward Squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell
An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology
Awkward moments in patient-physician communication about HIV risk.
The effects of awkward versus natural shoulder configurations on elbow maximal torque based on isokinetic dynamometer
Sergio Garcia's meltdown at the Masters will likely lead to an awkward few days for the reigning champion
Awkward trunk postures and their relationship with low back pain in hospital nurses
Withdrawing from Controversial Case Was Awkward for King & Spalding, But That's About All
Awkwardness ensues as top Democratic senator asks Mark Zuckerberg if he'll reveal what hotel he stayed at last night
Imagined spatial transformations of one's hands and feet.
awkward
awkward: [14] When awkward was coined, in Scotland and northern England, it meant ‘turned in the wrong direction’. Middle English had an adjective awk, which meant ‘the wrong way round, backhanded’, and hence ‘perverse’, and with the addition of the suffix -ward this became awkward. Awk itself was adopted from Old Norse afugr, which is related to German ab ‘away’ and English off. Awkward followed a similar semantic path to awk, via ‘perverse, illadapted’ to ‘clumsy’.=> off
awkward (adj.)
mid-14c., "in the wrong direction," from awk "back-handed" + adverbial suffix -weard (see -ward). Meaning "clumsy" first recorded 1520s. Related: Awkwardly. Other formations from awk, none of them surviving, were awky, awkly, awkness.
1. This put them in a very awkward position.
这使他们处境很尴尬。
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2. The president laughed off the awkward situation.
总统对尴尬的处境一笑置之。
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3. It all seemed pretty tough, but now your little one might be asking what seems like the most awkward and embarrassing of questions: “Where do babies come from?” Where indeed.
所有的这一切看起来似乎很艰难，但现在似乎你的小家伙可能会问他最喜欢的而令你最尴尬和难堪的问题是：“小婴儿是从哪里来的呢？”
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4. We all want to make a good first impression and not get stuck in an awkward conversation.
我们都希望给人留下好的第一印象而且不要陷入一种尴尬的谈话中。
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5. If you are always at every party she is at, but you never make your move…the tension will be more awkward to build in a social situation.
如果你总是出现在她在的每个派对，但是你从不做出你的行动……在一个社交的场景下，张力会变得更加尴尬。
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6. Unfortunately, they’re all friends of mine, which makes it awkward.
不幸的是，他们都是我的朋友，这就更尴尬了。
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7. The crisis could not have come at a politically more awkward moment.
这场危机不可能在政治上更尴尬的时刻来临了。
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8. And what about overcoming all those awkward cultural differences?
那么该怎么克服那些尴尬的文化差异呢？
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9. It seems as foolhardy not to discuss the option as it is to maintain such an awkward silence over China’s rise.
就像对中国的崛起保持尴尬的沉默一样，不讨论这一选项似乎也是很鲁莽的行为。
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10. It may feel awkward at first and it may even temporarily slow your reading rate as you adjust, but using a pointer is critical if you want to improve your reading skill.
它可能会觉得尴尬，甚至它可能暂时放慢你的阅读速度，但作为一个调整，在初期使用一个指针是很关键的，如果你真的想提高你的阅读技能的话。
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11. As we waited in that room, Liz on her back in that awkward position once again, the tension grew while we anticipated the findings.
我们在房间里等待时，利兹又再次回到了那个尴尬的处境里，当我们猜测着结果的时候，气氛变得更加紧张了。
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12. When you meet, it will not be as awkward as most first dates as you already have bits and pieces of information about each other to bank on and discuss further.
当你们见面时，就不会像第一次约会那么尴尬了，因为你们彼此已经了解了对方的一些零碎的资料了，可以更深一步地交谈下去。
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13. Then there would be an awkward silence as the person tries to think of what to talk about next.
然后就会出现一段尴尬的沉默因为那人在思考下一步该谈什么。
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14. An awkward, aloof figure, he has been out kissing babies and even allowing himself to be interviewed on television.
一直是尴尬的冷漠的形象的他已经开始外出亲吻婴儿，甚至允许电视采访。
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15. We looked like a bunch of awkward kids riding a slow-moving carousel.
我们看起来就像一群骑在旋转木马上的笨拙的孩子。
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16. So just as we had to escape things with backslashes in an awkward way, same deal with percent in this context.
所以就像我们采用笨拙的方式来用反斜杠来避免一些东西,在这个背景下对百分号做相同的处理。
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17. There shouldn’t have to be any of those awkward silences,there should be always things to talk about.
这其中不该有任何那种尴尬的沉默，而应该是总有说不完的话。
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18. There shouldn’t have to be any of those awkward silences,there should be always things to talk about.
这其中不该有任何那种尴尬的沉默，而应该是总有说不完的话。
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19. Not only is it awkward for the user, but it typically results in a thick coating of fingerprints on the display.
不仅仅是因为这种输入法难于使用，而且通常会在屏幕上留下重重的指纹。
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20. The pan is an awkward shape.
这个锅的形状用起来不方便。
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21. Everybody spoke enthusiastically at the meeting. There were no awkward silences.
会上，大家发言很热烈，没有冷
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22. Putting functions in a dialog box emphasizes their separateness from the main task. Putting the brightness and contrast adjustment in a dialog box works just fine, but it creates an awkward interaction.
将功能放在对话框中的重点是把它们和主任务分开来，在对话框中调节亮度和对比度是可以的，但就交互而言却是蹩脚的。
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23. He smiled in an awkward almost apologetic way.
他笑得很尴尬，几乎象在道歉。
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24. This means that users must switch between stylus and thumb-board, making for considerably awkward input interactions.
这就意味着使用者要经常在拇指板和手写笔之间换来换去，使得输入起来相当不方便。
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25. Almost all embedded systems have a simplified input system rather than a keyboard or desktop-style pointing device. This means that any input to the system—especially textual input—is awkward, slow, and difficult for users.
几乎所有的嵌入系统的输入系统都比键盘或者桌面类的鼠标设备要简单，这就意味着这些系统的输入，尤其是文本的输入，对用户来说是非常笨拙、缓慢和困难的。
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26. This was an incredible pain, because regardless of whether you had made a mistake or not, you needed to answer this awkward and confusing meta-question, which could lead you to make exactly the kind of mistake you were hoping to avoid.
这也带来了不可想像的痛苦，因为无论你是否犯了错误，都必须回答这个笨拙而困惑的原始问题，它可能会让你真的犯下原本希望避免的错误。
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27. Of course, ToolTips will help them, but it is terribly awkward to move a mouse cursor over each icon and wait for the ToolTip for every butcon.
当然，工具提示可以有所帮助。 不过要是每次都必须把光标放在图标上面等待提示显示出来，这未免也太笨拙了。
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28. Systems usually require verbal or telephone keypad entry of information. Testing should be done to determine an appropriate length of time to wait; keep in mind that phone keypads can be awkward and very slow for entering textual information.
系统通常需要的是键盘输入信息或者语音输入信息，可以通过测试来决定等待时间的长短。 要记住，用电话的小键盘来输入文字信息很不方便，而且很慢。
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