fumbling
v. (笨拙地)摸索或处理(某事物)( fumble的现在分词 ); 乱摸,笨拙地弄; 使落下
adj. 笨拙的;迟疑的
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. showing lack of skill or aptitude;
Peter drove jerkily, cornering too fast and fumbling the gears.
彼得转弯太急,换挡不利索,车开得一颠一颠的。
Fumbling, he ran her card through the machine.
他笨手笨脚地用她的卡在机器上刷了一下。
Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along.
在海滩钻石般闪烁的烟霭中某种黑乎乎的东西正在摸索前来.
Hearn was fumbling now , he had noticed that in him.
他看出了侯恩是在那里冥思苦想.
Brown was fumbling for something to say.
布朗还在没话找话说.