clumsy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 笨拙的, 愚笨的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across the streets, at wide intervals, one clumsy lamp was slung by a rope and pulley; at night, when the lamplighter had let these down, and lighted, and hoisted them again, a feeble grove of dim wicks swung in a sickly manner overhead, as if they were at sea.
-- As it advanced, the mender of roads would discern without sur-prise, that it was a shaggy-haired man, of almost barbarian aspect, tall, in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads, grim, rough, swart, steeped in the mud and dust of many highways, dank with the marshy moisture of many low grounds, sprinkled with the thorns and leaves and moss of many byways through woods.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clumsy movement made by Vronsky had broken her back.
-- Then lightly preening and folding its wings, it disappeared round a corner with a clumsy wag of its tail.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he was practicing the tactful observation he was going to present two minutes from now, he could still hear the clumsy thing he had said two minutes before.
-- But this boob has some conscience to him, and I'm so darn' glad he's playing around with a girl that's real folks and-- Oh, listen at me fallin' all over my clumsy feet!But I just mean I hope you won't mind Uncle Clif saying he does by golly like you a lot!"
-- Gottlieb's fluent bench- technique versus the clumsy and podgy hands of Ira Hinkley.
-- Clumsy old man!"
-- What would be the worth of having all the world if he could not show it to her, if she was not there-- He denounced Nature for her way of tricking human beings, by every gay device of moonlight and white limbs and reaching loneliness, into having babies, then making birth as cruel and clumsy and wasteful as she could.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A big clumsy sofa occupied almost the whole of one wall and half the floor space of the room; it was once covered with chintz, but was now in rags and served Ras-kolnikov as a bed.
-- Rather clumsy, that is to say, he is a man of polished manners, but I mean clumsy in a differ-ent sense.
-- But it's odd that he should be so clumsy about it if he had any designs against you芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not beenable to keep back, and I made a clumsy laugh of it, and we satdown together, side by side.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all at once the scheme broke down, it suddenly occurring to him that this was rather a clumsy way, and too barefaced to begin with.
-- "There's a great clumsy sneeze!Why can't ye have better manners, you young dog!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Exceedingly," answered Eugene, flushing, and disconcerted by a dim suspicion that he had somehow been guilty of a clumsy piece of folly.
-- "You continue to receive, possibly you fear, those who know the amount of pain that they deliberately inflict; but a clumsy blunderer who has no idea how deeply he wounds is looked upon as a fool who does not know how to make use of his opportunities, and every one despises him."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was built by slave labor, a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the greenincline of pasture land running down to the river; and it pleased Gerald greatly, for, even when new, it wore a look ofmellowed years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy laboring-boy.
-- I knew it was Joe, by his clumsy manner of coming upstairs, --his state boots being always too big for him,--and by the time it took him to read the names on the other floors in the course of his ascent.
-- In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking,--of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style,--of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food,--of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,--of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,--in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.
-- As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: 'Could you not have done it more carefully!You dragged at my brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you clumsy creatures!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw the clumsy breeches slipping down over the pure, delicate, white loins, the bones showing a little, and the sense of aloneness, of a creature purely alone, overwhelmed her.
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