ungainly

英 [ʌnˈɡeɪnli]

美 [ʌnˈɡeɪnli]

adj.  笨手笨脚的; (举止)不雅观的，难看的

最高级：ungainliest　

IELTSGRETEM8

BNC.20465 / COCA.20371

牛津词典

adj.

• 笨手笨脚的；（举止）不雅观的，难看的
  moving in a way that is not smooth or elegant
  1. He was a tall, ungainly boy of 18.
     他是个个子高而笨拙的18岁小伙子。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （人、兽、车船）笨拙的，难看的
  If you describe a person, animal, or vehicle asungainly, you mean that they look awkward or clumsy, often because they are big.
  1. The dog, an ungainly mongrel pup, was loping about the road...
     那只丑陋的杂种幼犬在马路上到处乱跑。
  2. Paul swam in his ungainly way to the side of the pool.
     保罗笨拙地游到池子边。

英英释义

adj

• lacking grace in movement or posture
  1. a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
  2. clumsy fingers
  3. what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
  4. heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
  Synonym:gawkyclumsyclunkyunwieldy
• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
  1. an awkward bundle to carry
  2. a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
  3. clumsy wooden shoes
  4. the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl
  Synonym:awkwardbunglesomeclumsy

双语例句

• Paul swam in his ungainly way to the side of the pool.
  保罗笨拙地游到池子边。
• Turned outward in an ungainly manner. an atom consists of a nucleus around which electrons move.
  以难看的样子向外翻转。原子有一个原子核，外面有电子围绕它旋转。
• It's not quite the Lake District but the countryside's very pretty. The person of this individual was to the last degree ungainly without being in any particular manner deformed.
  这儿虽说比不上湖区，但郊外的景色倒也十分漂亮.此人的模样，虽说并没有特别的畸型残缺之处，但看上去极不匀称。
• The tall man wobbled along ungainly.
  这高大的男子笨拙地摇晃着向前行进。
• He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet;
  我刚才已经说过，他滑到了舷樯旁，像个可怕而丑恶的傀儡一样躺在那里。
• It is often an ungainly, comic endeavour.
  那往往是一种笨拙可笑的尝试。
• The first two arguments to this rather ungainly call specify the namespace and name of the type we're adding a property to& in this case, NAMESPACE: Name.
  该调用看上去相当复杂，前两个参数指定了我们将为之添加属性的类型的名称空间和名称&在本例中为NAMESPACE：Name。
• On land, they're ungainly, but when they find the right conditions
  在陆地，他们很笨拙，但是当他们找到合适的条件
• The next piece of business was to find a name for this ungainly creation.
  下一步就是为这个不受待见的产品起个名字了。
• If, on the other hand, America found and followed a native line, the results were bound to be ungainly. Not all accumulations of hydrocarbons are necessarily the result of hydrodynamics.
  如若美国另辟蹊径，其结果必然流于粗俗。并不是所有烃类的储集都必然是水动力的结果。