ungainly
ungainly 英 [ʌnˈgeɪnli] 美 [ʌnˈɡenli]
adj. 笨拙的；不雅的 adv. 笨拙地；不雅地
比较级:ungainlier 最高级:ungainliest
- Ungainly is the opposite of graceful, convenient, or easy. A clumsy dancer boogies in an ungainly or awkward fashion.
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- adj. 笨拙的；不雅的
- adv. 笨拙地；不雅地
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1. If you are naturally athletic, you will do better in the sports arena, then the person who is a bit ungainly.
如果你强壮健康，在体育界你会做得更好，然后变成一个有点笨拙的人。
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2. The first ungainly prototypes had fuel-cell stacks, which produce the electricity, and drive systems so bulky there was room for little more than the driver.
第一款样子笨拙的原型车安装着若干燃料电池架，庞大驾驶系统几乎占据了除驾驶员座席外的其他空间。
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3. At its worst, it's an ungainly hybrid, suffering not only from the flaws common to 3-D action movies, but from its own conflicting impulses and ambitions as well.
往坏了说，它只是一个笨拙的嫁接，它不仅饱受3-D大片的诟病，还受困于自身的冲突。
- ungainly (adj.) 1610s, "unfit, improper," from Middle English ungeinliche, from ungein (late 14c.) "inconvenient, disagreeable, troublesome," from un- (1) "not" + gein "kind, helpful; reliable; beneficial; suitable, appropriate; convenient," from Old Norse gegn "straight, direct, helpful," from Proto-Germanic *gagina "against" (see again). Old English had ungænge "useless, vain."
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