bumbling

英 [ˈbʌmblɪŋ]

美 [ˈbʌmblɪŋ]

adj. 笨手笨脚的(常马虎出错)
v. 笨手笨脚; 跌跌撞撞
bumble的现在分词

现在分词：bumbling　

BNC.39422 / COCA.26686

牛津词典

adj.

笨手笨脚的（常马虎出错）
behaving in an awkward confused way, often making careless mistakes

柯林斯词典

ADJ 笨手笨脚的；常出错的
If you describe a person or their behaviour asbumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
1. ...a clumsy, bumbling, inarticulate figure.
  一个笨手笨脚、经常出错、吐字不清的人物

双语例句

He kept bumbling on about something.
他结结巴巴地说个不停。
But while Americans were able to find solace in the heroism of New York fire fighters, the people of Hong Kong were instead shocked by the bumbling rescue operation.
然而，如果说美国人能够在纽约消防员的英勇行为中找到慰藉，香港人却只能对笨拙的救援行动感到震惊。
Instead, cocky types are more likely to win their hearts, with Simon Cowell's arrogant attitude more appealing than Hugh Grant's bumbling on-screen behaviour.
相反，自大的男人更容易赢得美人心，傲慢的西蒙（《英国达人》评委，编者按）就比荧幕上老实的休·格兰特更受欢迎。
I've never seen such bumbling incompetence!
我从未见过如此糟糕无能！
All of the mistakes are the fault of the bumbling Bhiksuni called Jampa Chodron, so please forgive me.
如果出现任何错漏，都是愚痴的比丘尼强帕的过失，敬请原谅！
To most British voters, Ronald Reagan was a bumbling actor with primitive instincts and dangerous powers.
对大多数英国选民来说，罗纳德里根（ronaldreagan）是一个有着原始本能和危险权力的装模作样的演员。
This suggests that an apology is not cheap talk at all: it represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling.
这表明，道歉根本不是廉价的磋商：这代表着一种看似可爱但很愚笨的选择。
Surely, it takes much more restraint and far more faith in one's readers to place the full heft of a book in the bumbling hands of an unreliable first person.
不过要把叙述整部作品的重任都放到不可靠的第一人称叙事者那摇晃的肩膀上去，也的确需要作家的自我克制，和对读者的信任。
He kept bumbling on about his operation, but I didn't really understand all the details.
他一直含混地大谈手术经过，但对那些细节我根本就听不懂。
A bumbling mechanic; a bungling performance; ham-handed governmental interference; could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature-mary h.vorse.
笨手笨脚的技工；笨手笨脚的表演；政府笨拙的干涉；那些穷人笨手笨脚的，几乎不能将煤斗中的灰弄干净玛丽h弗斯。