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

awkwardlyadverb(WITH EMBARRASSMENT)

in aworriedorembarrassedway:
局促不安地；尴尬地
Heshiftedawkwardly from onefootto the other.他局促不安地站在那儿，双脚倒来倒去。
in anembarrassingorworryingway, or a way thatcausesproblems:
不合适地；引发问题地
Thepublicationof theeconomicstatisticswas awkwardlytimedfor thegovernment.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
  • egg
  • hangdog
  • have egg onyourfaceidiom
  • humbling
  • look
  • looksomeonein the eye/faceidiom
  • meet
  • meetsomeone'seyeidiom
  • not know where to putyourselfidiom
  • pride
  • shamefaced
  • shamefacedly
  • sheepish
  • squirm
  • swallowyourprideidiom
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Anxious and worried

awkwardlyadverb(MOVE)

movingin a way that is notnatural,relaxed, orattractive:
笨拙的；别扭的；不灵活的；难看的
Shefellawkwardly when she wasskiingandtwistedherankle.滑雪时，她笨重地摔了一跤，扭伤了脚踝。
Hewalkedawkwardlyacrosstheroom,awarethat they werewatching.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
  • fumble
  • functional illiteracy
  • gauche
  • geek
  • ham-fisted
  • jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
  • klutzy
  • like a bull in a china shopidiom
  • lost
  • lubber
  • unable
  • uncoordinated
  • uneducable
  • unenterprising
  • unequal
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awkwardlyadverb(WITH DIFFICULTY)

in a way that isdifficulttodealwith, use, or do:
（以一种难以应对的方式）怪怪地
Thecarwasparkedawkwardlyacrossthepavement.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
  • formidable
  • formidably
  • get blood out of/from a stoneidiom
  • grail
  • gruelling
  • onerous
  • overdemanding
  • painstaking
  • picnic
  • problematic
  • tuff
  • ultra-sensitive
  • unresolved
  • unsolved
  • unwieldy
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awkwardlyadverb(NOT HELPFULLY)

in anintentionallyunhelpfulway:
不合作地；故意为难地
Hestoodthere awkwardly,refusingtomove.他故意站在那里，拒绝让开。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unhelpful and Uncooperative
  • awkward
  • awkwardness
  • deterrent
  • foot
  • hang
  • hangsomeoneout to dryidiom
  • obstructionism
  • obstructionist
  • obstructive
  • obstructively
  • obstructiveness
  • stifling
  • stiflingly
  • stultifying
  • stultifyingly
  • unaccommodating
  • uncongenial
  • underyourfeetidiom
  • unforthcoming
  • unhelpful
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(Definition ofawkwardlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

awkwardly| American Dictionary

awkwardly
adverb
us
/ˈɔ·kwər·dli/

awkwardlyadverb(CAUSING DIFFICULTY)

so as to make somethingdifficulttodealwith:
Thepublicationof thearticlewas awkwardlytimedfor thegovernment.

awkwardlyadverb(WITHOUT GRACE)

withoutgrace:
Hesatawkwardly on thefloor.
(Definition ofawkwardlyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofawkwardly

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The body occupies a territory where language itself becomes problematic,awkwardlypolarised between the medical-clinical and the vulgar-demotic.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Coordination in the motionverb example in (i) allows for a single-event interpretation, whereas in (ii) and functions (awkwardly) as a conjunction.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The irreconcilable duality of his being is restated every time he traipsesawkwardlyacross the stage.
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Feeling-based ministry is oftenawkwardlydelivered, occasionally emotional, and tends more towards the poetic than the prosaic.
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Such a list of characters however, far from giving structure and direction to this study, seems to standawkwardlyin the way of a smooth reading of a complicated story.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The chair's, perhaps, making you sitawkwardly.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The author is all the same right to conclude, howeverawkwardly, that 'this same finitude of elements [is essential] for the discriminability, learnability, memorability and reproducibility of music patterns'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We know that he does not want to refer to the matter tooawkwardlyagain.
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Eavesdropping evidence is admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings and this sitsawkwardlyagainst the fact that intercept material is not.
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To make them work inordinately long hours orawkwardlyspread-out hours is a bad proposition for the country, not only socially but commercially and politically.
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Like many, it accepts that current legislation isawkwardlydrafted, difficult to enforce and full of anomalies.
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I have, somewhatawkwardly, to raise the question of cost.
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There are a great variety of circumstances which may change rapidly andawkwardlytowards the end of the financial year.
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How do we best handle the courageous, cussed men with theirawkwardlylong memories, particularly of grievances?
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I think it is also true that the changes have beenawkwardlybrought about.
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