词汇 | example_english_clumsy |
释义 | Examples of clumsyThese 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. The clumsiest of the bunch, he sometimes gets overexcited and acts before thinking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Apparently (examples are provided), the formalism is clumsy, sometimes wrong, and occasionally just ' perverse ' (154). He is the clumsiest on the moon and usually having his clumsiness creating simple slapstick comedy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A literal translation risks less in loss of meaning, but can be clumsy. In some, the animals' bodies are pressed into clumsy and unnaturalistic positions more suited to a human body. However, while permanent immunity was certain, the procedure itself was ' costly, clumsy, heartbreaking and dangerous ', as one vet put it. I am still not entirely convinced by the idea of using these rather hackneyed tunes, especially as the word-setting is sometimes rather clumsy. Earlier pieces construct, in cheap, clumsy materials, the inaccessible landscapes viewed from a plane window or the envisaged destination of a journey. In contrast, the text is somewhat clumsy stylistically. Perhaps the race will come to see that strikes and wars are clumsy and wasteful ways of settling differences. We poor clumsy men and women turned the world upside down, inside out, round and about. He is too clumsy and comfort-loving for that. Adding a clause is somewhat clumsy, and the two-column paradigm does not handle higher arity tuples well. As they work in isolation from a real audience, their style often becomes clumsy and lifeless. Such clumsy moralizing failed to convince his critics, however. The attempt to challenge the biases of earlier scholarship is also sometimes clumsy and overstated. Turn away passenger on aircraft (a clumsy rustic with no family). The vase was broken by the clumsy child. Other topics were more selectively targeted for children and families with mild special needs: for example overweight, clumsy, insomniac, or restless children and sedentary families. In functional languages, however, incremental updates are usually both clumsy and inefficient, especially when the data structure is an array. If that were so, the generation of new ideas would be a clumsy, plodding and probably dysfunctional business. The clumsy spatial reconfiguration of existing hotel architecture was crucial to its oppositional stance. The upper limbs are less affected, although clumsy and inco-ordinate, and speech is slow, slurred and indistinct. The crudeness, almost clumsy or ugly in places, is not only deliberate but poetic. Meany is a wannabe tough guy, often bullying his shyer, clumsier brothers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As a side benefit, such a weighting system would eliminate the need for the clumsy system of four overlapping chronological groups of parishes. The single word people give me most often is obzocky, which means awkward, lopsided, leaning over, clumsy - an obzocky house, an obzocky person. Similarly, three informants classed option 1 of the same example as 'clumsy'/'ugly'. They described the phrase "to do the needful" as "obsolescent", "clumsy", "really comical", "lower class" and "faulty". They are children who were frequently referred to in the past as 'clumsy'. The flight itself is to a certain extent slow, clumsy, unsteady, and often takes a zigzag direction. From a conceptual perspective, this range of differing interpretations can seem clumsy and contradictory. While a turtle graphics system is easy to understand and very simple, it is rather clumsy for creating pictures. The large mouth is generally open, the gestures are clumsy.*! Patients initially note they are clumsy, then subsequently lose the ability to walk, eat, or use their arms. Certainly, the reader will have noticed that the notation used so far is very clumsy. No example is given; and because of the clumsy verbal expression, the text is hard to understand. Counselling was mostly implemented with children with special health needs: for example with overweight, clumsy, restless, or insomniac children or sedentary families. Although all results presented in this paper also hold without this assumption, many notions have an easier definition and some proofs become less clumsy when coherence is assumed. The clumsy man heard the fourth whistle. The most sensual forms occur in the sound reflectant pulpit wall [25] but the west windows are a clumsy array which collide with the plastic form [26]. Judging from other children, has he seemed awkward and clumsy, such as knocking things over, or dropping things, or bumping into things even though he did not mean to ? My clumsy body is synchronised with it. Because it's conscious, it can sometimes be a little more clumsy perhaps, or it can evoke pastiche, or you feel the inverted commas going up: 'here's the folk bit'. There was nothing he liked so much as flattery, or, to put it more plainly, adulation; the coarser and clumsier it was, the more he relished it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She questions the phrase, 'state of the language,' since it implies fixity and prescription and thinks that 'the between of the language' is a possible though clumsy substitute. His descriptions of processes like the erosion of telomeres (the protective sequences at the ends of our chromosomes) are both inaccurate and clumsy in their imagery. Virtually all the subjects reported feeling very clumsy during their first attempts at mirror writing with frequent episodes of an inability to move the limb at all. We realize that this solution is not perfect, but this is the best compromise we have been able to achieve without making the notation unnecessarily clumsy. One could argue that this was just a one-off example of bad, 'clumsy' technical assistance and that those in research and aid arenas have learnt lessons and changed. Because these issues are so important it is a pity that the force of her argument is occasionally lost amidst rather clumsy syntax and what could be labeled 'soundbite sociology'. The presentation is understandable, but clumsy. We think it is clumsy; it is inequitable and unjust. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a slight impairment of reaction time and fine movements become clumsy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have often wondered whether we could not find a middle way between deflation and clumsy physical controls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The age of 15 is a clumsy moment to choose, because it may be either too early or too late. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am all for getting things as carefully prepared as possible, but is it not rather clumsy? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whoever originated that clumsy and rather unintelligible phrase could not have known very much about how our social services are financed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the scheme is inadequate to deal with the matter, and that the methods suggested are very clumsy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although they are (by today's standards) large and clumsy reactors, they have proved to be very safe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trouble is that what we now have is a one-and-three-quarter-tier government, which is probably as clumsy an arrangement as one could have. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we query is the wisdom of seeking to enforce those concepts by means of the clumsy machinery of the criminal law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clumsy pressures like mandatory sanctions, so freely spoken of, are not the way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not need to add to the list a clumsy alternative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first is that it is slightly clumsy and long-winded, but that is a matter of style rather than substance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can he persuade it that the kindest way to describe its handling of matters so far is "clumsy and inelegant"? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Section 28 is a piece of clumsy state censorship and illiberal social engineering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were clumsy, poor statements which relied wholly on some badly expressed scientific views. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that that is a clumsy phrase designed to conceal from the public the nature and extent of other fibres than wool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, is the proposal not a blatant and clumsy attempt to load the costs of privatisation on the public sector? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In spite of all the clumsy efforts of the axeman the sap has continued to rise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The introduction of a ballot would be clumsy and ineffectual, and would provide no positive value for the quality of housing management. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One is building here an enormously clumsy apparatus and introducing into the criminal system rigidities which we could simply well do without. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely that is a rather one-sided and clumsy collection of words if we omit full employment at the same time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As coal is now rationed by price, why keep all this clumsy abracadabra of bureaucracy in being for a shortage that no longer exists? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The difficulty with the voucher scheme is that the administrative procedures of issuing vouchers and coping with the paperwork would be clumsy, expensive and awkward. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We thought that clumsy, but it was the natural blow-for-blow diplomacy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a law would be a clumsy instrument, which could not cope with all the particulars of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are large, clumsy, slow-firing liquid fuel rockets, which are unprotected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They often prove to be crude and clumsy in practice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I may be over-cynical, but some of the machinery appears complicated and clumsy, as are some of the concepts relating to confiscation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of the very large sentence included between the commas, it would make rather a clumsy drafting sentence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Without laziness the code would be much clumsier and less declarative. The claim that left-handers are overall clumsier than right-handers was not supported. Besides that, the claim that left-handers are overall clumsier than right-handers was not supported. They insist on accuracy of meaning first even if the result is a little clumsier than an alternative which reads rather easily. Although similar results are obtained, the computations become much clumsier. A clumsier but more accurate description would be 'individualistic constructivism'. Clumsy servants, inattentive guests (here located primarily in the back rooms), and noisy children are also common figures. If, nonetheless, there still recurs the brash tug of clumsy feet against sensitive scholarly tripwires, without these scholars' expertise there would have been endless detonation. They were fairly clumsy devices and only offered security from one side: anyone could unlock them from the other side. A history of clumsy regeneration projects in some areas provided the conference with live examples for discussions on renewal and conservation. Here it would be clumsy to solve the full discrete equation at each refinement level from scratch. The treatment of the inputs is rather clumsy. I enjoy both the elegant and the clumsy, the simple and the complicated, the polite and the vulgar. Dependent record types subsume its features, though they can be significantly more clumsy to use. In such situations a comic character's sanctimonious pose seems clumsy and inappropriate, the expressions of rage and revenge hollow. 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. |
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