Ungainly

(a.) Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.

(a.) Unsuitable; unprofitable.

(adv.) In an ungainly manner.

录入:凯思琳

• I'm just something very ungainly that you've married. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He lisped--he was very plain and homely-looking: and exceedingly awkward and ungainly. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You know he is as ungainly within as without. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Of an ungainly make was Sloppy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• One described it as an ungainly craft looking precisely like a backwoods sawmill mounted on a scow and set on fire. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The ungainly piece of honesty beamed and blushed as he said it, quite enraptured with the remembrance of having been serviceable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To reverence Washington they wear a powdered wig; they do honor to Lincoln by cultivating awkward hands and ungainly feet. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

校对:西尔玛