网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 awkwardly
释义 awkwardly
adverb
uk /ˈɔː.kwəd.li/ us /ˈɑː.kwɚd.li/

awkwardlyadverb (WITH EMBARRASSMENT)


in a worried or embarrassed way: 局促不安地;尴尬地
He shifted awkwardly from one foot to the other.他局促不安地站在那儿,双脚倒来倒去。
in an embarrassing or worrying way, or a way that causes problems: 不合适地;引发问题地
The publication of the economic statistics was awkwardly timed for the government.经济统计数字公布的时机不对,令政府陷入尴尬境地。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ashamed and embarrassed
abash
abashed
ashamed
awkward
awkwardness
guiltiness
hangdog
have egg on your faceidiom
humbling
humblingly
mortify
mortifying
not know where to put yourselfidiom
pride
self-mortification
sheepishness
silly
smallness
squirm
swallow your prideidiom

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Anxious and worried

awkwardlyadverb (MOVE)


moving in a way that is not natural, relaxed, or attractive: 笨拙的;别扭的;不灵活的;难看的
She fell awkwardly when she was skiing and twisted her ankle.滑雪时,她笨重地摔了一跤,扭伤了脚踝。
He walked awkwardly across the room, aware that they were watching.他不自然地走过房间,知道大家都在看着他。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumblingly
functional illiteracy
gauche
gauchely
gawkily
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
like a bull in a china shopidiom
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly

awkwardlyadverb (WITH DIFFICULTY)


in a way that is difficult to deal with, use, or do: (以一种难以应对的方式)怪怪地
The car was parked awkwardly across the pavement.这辆车怪怪地横着停在人行道上。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidably
get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
grail
gruelling
gruellingly
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
problematic
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive

awkwardlyadverb (NOT HELPFULLY)


in an intentionally unhelpful way: 不合作地;故意为难地
He stood there awkwardly, refusing to move.他故意站在那里,拒绝让开。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unhelpful and Uncooperative
awkward
awkwardness
balky
deterrent
hang
non-cooperation
non-cooperative
obstructionism
obstructionist
obstructive
pre-emptive
stiflingly
stultifying
stultifyingly
unaccommodating
uncooperativeness
under your feetidiom
unforthcoming
unhelpful
unhelpfully

awkwardly | American Dictionary


awkwardly
adverb
us/ˈɔ·kwər·dli/

awkwardlyadverb (CAUSING DIFFICULTY)


so as to make something difficult to deal with:
The publication of the article was awkwardly timed for the government.

awkwardlyadverb (WITHOUT GRACE)


without grace:
He sat awkwardly on the floor.

Examples of awkwardly


awkwardly
The body occupies a territory where language itself becomes problematic, awkwardly polarised between the medical-clinical and the vulgar-demotic.
Coordination in the motionverb example in (i) allows for a single-event interpretation, whereas in (ii) and functions (awkwardly) as a conjunction.
The irreconcilable duality of his being is restated every time he traipses awkwardly across the stage.
Feeling-based ministry is often awkwardly delivered, occasionally emotional, and tends more towards the poetic than the prosaic.
Such a list of characters however, far from giving structure and direction to this study, seems to stand awkwardly in the way of a smooth reading of a complicated story.
The chair's, perhaps, making you sit awkwardly.
The author is all the same right to conclude, however awkwardly, that 'this same finitude of elements [is essential] for the discriminability, learnability, memorability and reproducibility of music patterns'.
We know that he does not want to refer to the matter too awkwardly again.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Eavesdropping evidence is admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings and this sits awkwardly against the fact that intercept material is not.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
To make them work inordinately long hours or awkwardly spread-out hours is a bad proposition for the country, not only socially but commercially and politically.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Like many, it accepts that current legislation is awkwardly drafted, difficult to enforce and full of anomalies.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I have, somewhat awkwardly, to raise the question of cost.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
There are a great variety of circumstances which may change rapidly and awkwardly towards the end of the financial year.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
How do we best handle the courageous, cussed men with their awkwardly long memories, particularly of grievances?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I think it is also true that the changes have been awkwardly brought about.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
See all examples of awkwardly
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2025/2/24 3:42:17