bumbling

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Perhapsthe bumbling way in which all bumblebees fly or their distinctive deep buzzingare more important clues to help would-be predators avoid a nasty sting, "he said.
也許大黃蜂飛行裝模作樣的方式或者它們獨特的“嗡嗡”聲是幫助潛在捕食者避免討厭的刺的更爲(wèi)重要的暗示。” 他說。
If adolescence is essentially a collection of them—angst, idiocy, and haste; impulsiveness, selfishness, and reckless bumbling—then how did those traits survive selection?
如果青少年本質(zhì)上是這種集郃躰——焦慮、愚蠢、輕率，沖動、自私和不計後果、笨手笨腳——那麼這些特性是如何經(jīng)過選擇而存在的呢？
He has often been portrayedas Holmes’ rather bumbling assistant.
作爲(wèi)福爾摩斯的助手，他通常被刻畫成一個笨手笨腳的人。

The Senate defeat was the product of shameless politicking and a bumbling response by the government.
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Yet all of this incompetent bumbling pales in comparison to Israel's weakness toward Iran.
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So are the physicists a bunch of bumbling incompetents who cannot do their sums?
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If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.