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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Watson, clumsy as I have been, you surely do not seriously imagine that I neglected to get the number?
-- It was a clumsy introduction, and the lady made me feel it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How pleased you were with the state of things as we found it, and how glad I was to observe your delight!We both said it was a matter to be proud of; but this clumsy defence that Evgenie mentions, this strange argu-ment CAN, of course, only be an accidental case one in a thousand!'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith he scrambled to his feet, and stood wiping his clumsy hand across his mouth and regarding me.
-- I noticed then the abnormal shortness of their legs, and their lank, clumsy feet.
-- Then sud-denly traversing a little glade, I saw with an unpleasant start two clumsy legs among the trees, walking with noise-less footsteps parallel with my course, and perhaps thirty yards away from me.
-- Be-fore me were the clumsy backs of perhaps a score of these Beast People, their misshapen heads half hidden by their shoulder-blades.
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：
-- In his shirt, without the clumsy velveteen coat, she saw again how slender he was, thin, stooping a little.
-- The healthy boy with his fresh, clumsy sensuality that she had then been so scornful of!Where would she find it now?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His trousers were so long and loose, and his shoes so clumsy and large, that he shuffled like an elephant; though how much of this was gait, and how much trailing cloth and leather, no one could have told.
-- 'Oh, Maggy,' said Little Dorrit, 'what a clumsy child you are!'
-- Ah!But Arthur would have known what was wanting to its completeness, though he had never heard of the words Little mother; though he had never seen the fondling of the small spare hand; though he had had no sight for the tears now standing in the colourless eyes; though he had had no hearing for the sob that checked the clumsy laugh.
-- 'Now, the deuce is in it,' muttered Pancks, tracing out a line in her hand with his clumsy finger, 'if this isn't me in the corner here!What do I want here?
-- Red and white curtained windows, little straw mat, little round table with a tumultuous assemblage of legs underneath, clumsy rush-bottomed chairs, two great red velvet arm-chairs affording plenty of space to be uncomfortable in, bureau, chimney-glass in several pieces pretending to be in one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of France.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for buttons, she soon learned to wonder where they went, to shake her head over the carelessness of men, and to threaten to make him sew them on himself, and see if his work would stand impa-tient and clumsy fingers any better than hers.
-- Jo thought, as she watched the pair, 'How well they look together!I was right, and Laurie has found the beautiful, accomplished girl who will become his home better than clumsy old Jo, and be a pride, not a torment to him.'
-- I've a special interest in such young bears, and like to show them that I see the warm, honest, well-meaning boys' hearts, in spite of the clumsy arms and legs and the topsy-turvy heads.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is only found on the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner something analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man.
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
-- Soon ranging up by his flank, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up for another fling.
-- The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play.
-- But how did so clumsy and weighty a mass as that same hook get fixed in that hole?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I think I was never more vain of my own performance, or more joyful for anything I found out, than for my being able to make a tobacco-pipe; and though it was a very ugly, clumsy thing when it was done, and only burned red, like other earthenware, yet as it was hard and firm, and would draw the smoke, I was ex-ceedingly comforted with it, for I had been always used to smoke; and there were pipes in the ship, but I forgot them at first, not thinking there was tobacco in the island; and af-terwards, when I searched the ship again, I could not come at any pipes.
-- As the bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does, who is swift and light, so he has two par-ticular qualities, which generally are the rule of his actions; first, as to men, who are not his proper prey (he does not usually attempt them, except they first attack him, unless he be excessively hungry, which it is probable might now be the case, the ground being covered with snow), if you do not meddle with him, he will not meddle with you; but then you must take care to be very civil to him, and give him the road, for he is a very nice gentleman; he will not go a step out of his way for a prince; nay, if you are really afraid, your best way is to look another way and keep going on; for sometimes if you stop, and stand still, and look stead-fastly at him, he takes it for an affront; but if you throw or toss anything at him, though it were but a bit of stick as big as your finger, he thinks himself abused, and sets all other business aside to pursue his revenge, and will have satisfac-tion in point of honour - that is his first quality: the next is, if he be once affronted, he will never leave you, night or day, till he has his revenge, but follows at a good round rate till he overtakes you.
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