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英式音标:['ɔ:kwədnəs]
美式音标:[ˈɔkwɚdnɪs]
词汇分类:傲慢与偏见(下),三级笔译(上)
概况:

n. 尴尬;笨拙

词义:

n.

笨拙;粗劣;难为情;尴尬

英英释义

awkwardness[ 'ɔ:kwədnis ]

n.

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

同义词:clumsinessineptnessineptitudemaladroitnessslowness

the quality of an embarrassing situation

"he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"

同义词:nuisance value

the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

同义词:clumsiness

the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

同义词:clumsinessgracelessnessstiffness

trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

同义词:cumbersomenessunwieldiness

用法:

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

Attribute never caught on due to its awkwardness.
属性由于笨拙而从来没有被使用过。

Don't criticize awkwardness or off-the-wall suggestions.
不要批评笨拙或疯狂的建议。

权威例句

The Syndrome of Physical Awkwardness

Constraints on grip-selection: minimizing awkwardness

The Awkwardness of Australian Engagement with Asia: The Dilemmas of Australian Idea of Regionalism

The lived experience of physical awkwardness: Adults' retrospective views

Beyond Orange and Green? The awkwardness of negotiating difference in Northern Ireland1

Perceptions of three terms to describe physical awkwardness in children ☆

Representational momentum for the human body: Awkwardness matters, experience does not.

Musical scales and evaluations of happiness and awkwardness: effects of pitch, direction, and scale mode.

A study of the relationship between physical awkwardness and children's perceptions of physical competence 5036

A systematic review of sensorimotor function during adolescence: a developmental stage of increased motor awkwardness?
同义词:left-hander,clumsiness
同根词:awkwardly,awkward
英语词源:

awkwardness (n.)

1704, "lack of grace," from awkward + -ness. Meaning "physical clumsiness" is attested from c. 1770; that of "social embarrassment" is from 1788.

造句:

1. With seeming awkwardness he fumbled long with the bow.

他假装笨拙,把弓瞎摸了很久。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. I knew we might go on like this, without speaking, all through the meal without any sense of awkwardness.

我知道我们可以这样一声不吭地埋头吃饭,一直到把饭吃完而不感到有什么不自在。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. His advent had obviously put a stop to the conversation, decided awkwardness having set in.

他的到来显然打断了大家的谈话,场面弄得很僵。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. I tried to smooth over the awkwardness of this first meeting.

我试图掩饰初次会面时的不自然。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. The awkwardness of searching for him lay in enlighten Elizabeth, a proceeding which her mother could not endure to contemplate.

去寻他,就要向伊丽莎白说明,这是一个难题,怎么说法呢,是她母亲不敢考虑的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. We can only get farther and farther into the swamp of awkwardness.

我们只会越来越陷入僵局,找不到出路。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. I replied sttiffly, less out of the prejudice of two decades than from the awkwardness of our meeting.

我的回答是生硬的,这并不是由于二十年来的偏见,而是由于我们会见的场合尴尬。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. countrified clothes; rustic awkwardness.

土气的衣服;土头土脑的笨拙。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

9. He sat down, at first, with some constraint and awkwardness.

他刚入座时还感到有点拘束和别扭。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

10. Her awkwardness had all but passed.

她的小家气派早已成为过去。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

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