fumble
vi. 乱摸,摸索; 笨手笨脚地做; [橄榄球] 失球; [棒球]漏接
vt. 弄乱; 笨拙地做
n. 摸索; 失球,接漏球
If you fumble for something or fumble with something, you try and reach for it or hold it in a clumsy way.
She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown...
她从床上蹑手蹑脚地爬起来,摸索着自己的晨衣。
He fumbled with the buttons at the neck...
他笨手笨脚地系着领口的纽扣。
When you are trying to say something, if you fumble for the right words, you speak in a clumsy and unclear way.
I fumbled for something to say...
我磕磕巴巴地想说点儿什么。
He fumbled his lines, not knowing what he was going to say.
他因为不知道接下来要说什么而把台词给念砸了。
1. (sports) dropping the ball
1. feel about uncertainly or blindly;
2. make one's way clumsily or blindly;
3. handle clumsily
4. make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
5. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder;
After a Pittsburgh fumble, Miami scored a touchdown.
匹兹堡队接球失误以后, 迈阿密队底线持球触地得分.
However, from this later, lucky star was experienced in Japan fumble endlessly and breed a process.
然而, 从这之后, 瑞星在日本经历了漫长的摸索和培育过程.
You fumble to find your passport when you cross a frontier.
当你出境时,要摸索着寻找护照.
But if you fumble on your own business, you can wind up losing money.
而你如果处理不好自己的生意, 就可能损失钱财.
He criticized my meal: " The kids, to care for plants, do not fumble, to know it? "
他把我批评了一顿: “ 小朋友, 要爱护花草, 不要乱摸, 知道了 吗 ? ”