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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dashed my shoulder into a clumsy monster who was turning to see what Moreau meant, and flung him forward into another.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
-- But, as you know, he has an extra joint in his foreflipper, and by waving it up and down and about he makes what answers to a sort of clumsy telegraphic code.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scout looked behind him, laughing at his own con-ceit, while he clambered up the partition, imitating, as he went, the clumsy motions of the beast he represented; but the instant the summit was gained he made a gesture for si-lence, and slid down with the utmost precipitation.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was constantly offending Dirk Stroeve so bitterly that he flung away, vowing he would never speak to him again; but there was a solid force in Strickland that attracted the fat Dutchman against his will, so that he came back, fawning like a clumsy dog, though he knew that his only greeting would be the blow he dreaded.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From these holes escaped every minute great birds of clumsy flight, which flew in all directions.
-- "How clumsy I am!"
-- The shape of these objects was clumsy and defective, but after they had been baked in a high temperature, the kitchen of the Chimneys was provided with a number of utensils, as precious to the settlers as the most beautifully enameled china.
-- In the event of this, the cart would have been of more use than the light canoe, but it was heavy and clumsy to drag, and therefore more difficult to use; this led Pencroft to express his regret that the chest had not contained, besides "his halfpound of tobacco," a pair of strong New Jersey horses, which would have been very useful to the colony!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also enjoyed the comparatively pure spring air, but the walking on the cobblestones was painful to her feet, unused as they were to walking, and shod in clumsy prison shoes.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
-- I remarked, indeed, a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account.
-- We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative, and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving; and now, at sight of this clumsy stranger, who was to stay here in my place beside my mother, I had my first attack of tears.
-- I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea-walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of these living plants, and under the arbours of the hydrophytes, were layers of clumsy articulates, particularly some raninae, whose carapace formed a slightly rounded triangle; and some horrible looking parthenopes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now that it was a serious matter, she seemed uncertain and clumsy in her stroke, it was difficult to paddle swiftly.
-- Slowly the launch drifted round in a pathetic, clumsy circle, and slunk away to the land, retreating into the dimness.
-- And she would stand watching with an eye like the eagle's, whilst the groom in clumsy confusion drove the lugubrious persons down the drive, as if they were rusty fowls, scuttling before him.
-- Pah!the mines were nothing but the clumsy efforts of impure minds.
-- "Why don't you give me the glass it is so clumsy for you," he said.
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