fumble

verb

1. 笨手笨脚地做（某事）；胡乱摸找（某物）
   to use your hands in an awkward way when you are doing sth or looking for sth
   1. She fumbled in her pocket for a handkerchief.
      她在她口袋里胡乱摸找手帕。
   2. He fumbled with the buttons on his shirt.
      他笨手笨脚地摆弄他衬衣上的纽扣。
   3. She was fumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch.
      她摸黑找电灯开关。
   4. He fumbled the key into the ignition.
      他笨拙地把钥匙插进汽车点火开关。
2. 笨嘴拙舌地说话；支支吾吾地说
   to have difficulty speaking clearly or finding the right words to say
   1. During the interview, she fumbled helplessly for words.
      面试时她支支吾吾找不出适当的话语。
   2. to fumble an announcement
      结结巴巴地宣告
3. 失球；接球失误；漏接
   to drop a ball or to fail to stop or kick it

noun

1. 笨拙的手部动作；乱摸
   an awkward action using the hands
2. （美式足球）失球，接球失误，漏接
   the action of dropping the ball while it is in play in American football

1. VERB 乱摸;摸索;笨拙地处理
   If you fumble for something or fumble with something, you try and reach for it or hold it in a clumsy way.
   1. She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown...
      她从床上蹑手蹑脚地爬起来，摸索着自己的晨衣。
   2. He fumbled with the buttons at the neck...
      他笨手笨脚地系着领口的纽扣。
   3. He fumbled his one-handed attempt to light his cigarette.
      他笨拙地想用一只手点燃香烟。
2. VERB 笨嘴拙舌地说话;结结巴巴地说话
   When you are trying to say something, if you fumble for the right words, you speak in a clumsy and unclear way.
   1. I fumbled for something to say...
      我磕磕巴巴地想说点儿什么。
   2. He fumbled his lines, not knowing what he was going to say.
      他因为不知道接下来要说什么而把台词给念砸了。

1. She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown
   她从床上蹑手蹑脚地爬起来，摸索着自己的晨衣。
2. He fumbled with the buttons at the neck
   他笨手笨脚地系着领口的纽扣。
3. He fumbled his one-handed attempt to light his cigarette.
   他笨拙地想用一只手点燃香烟。
4. I fumbled for something to say
   我磕磕巴巴地想说点儿什么。
5. He fumbled his lines, not knowing what he was going to say.
   他因为不知道接下来要说什么而把台词给念砸了。
6. His awkwardness made him fumble with the key.
   由于尴尬不安，他拿钥匙开锁时显得笨手笨脚。
7. But only in embracing that messiness and sometimes rudeness or foolishness do we fumble our way toward brilliance.
   但只有欣然接受这种混乱，以及时不时冒出来的粗鲁或傻气，我们才能摸索出一条通向智慧的路。
8. Sina's profits are growing at double-digit rates, while Focus Media's recent past has been marked by one fumble after another.
   新浪的利润在以两位数的速度增长，而分众传媒最近却是接二连三的失误。
9. A spokesman said: "We think it will be popular because it takes out the fumble factor – you don't have to rummage through your pockets to find it."
   相关发言人表示：“我们认为它会流行起来的，因为它避免了胡乱摸索&你根本不需要在口袋中到处翻找。”
10. All the other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled state they fumble about.
    其他的历史家都有些目眩神迷，也就不免在眩惑中摸索。
11. Millions of people struggle out Of bed each morning, fumble into some clothes, and make their way to a cup of coffee and the morning newspaper.
    每天清晨，成千上万的人挣扎着起床，摸索着穿上衣服，然后喝咖啡，看早报。
12. With little or no previous experience, it is no wonder that you start to fumble.
    由于你没有或者几乎没有相关的经验，难怪你开始做时就会笨手笨脚的。
13. Too often, a myriad of problems arise the first time a project has to coax its way into system testing, and then into user acceptance testing, and then fumble its way into production.
    大量的问题往往来自首次引入系统测试、用户验收测试、在生产环境摸索的项目。
14. As he sat in his easy chair, I would fumble through Lady of Spain and Beer Barrel Polka.
    他躺在安乐椅里，我则笨拙地拉完西班牙女郎和啤酒桶波尔卡。
15. You must have wondered how some people are so good with their words while others fumble to express themselves due to lack of words.
    你肯定好奇为什么有的人能对单词应用自如，而有些人在表达自己时却词穷不已。
16. Fumble in one's pocket for some coins
    笨手笨脚地在口袋里摸索几枚硬币
17. I think, this needs to fumble ceaselessly in practice, cannot be an armchair strategist.
    我认为，这需要在实践中不断摸索，不能纸上谈兵。
18. I like Kobe because, as a fan, I've had the opportunity to watch him fumble, pick himself back up and we've watched him grow tremendously as a player and as a person.
    我喜欢科比，因为，作为一个科迷，我有机会看到他在摸索，令自己跌入低谷，我们也看到了他可怕地成长，作为一个球员和普通人。
19. The fumble allow the other team to make a goal
    处理不当使另外一队进了一球
20. Eating in the lunchroom with the other kids watching him fumble with his food proved very painful to Roger.
    在餐厅吃饭时，让其他小朋友看到他笨拙的吃相使他深感苦恼。
21. England goalkeeper Robert Green dominated the headlines as a "butterfingers" after his fumble against the USA in the group rounds.
    在小组赛阶段对阵美国的比赛中，英格兰门将罗伯特·格林因其“黄油手”失球而占据了各大报刊的头条。
22. Nobody wants to see you fumble your way through your file system for that diagram you were supposed to explain.
    没有人希望看到你为了找到要向大家解释的图，而在文件目录中苦苦搜寻。
23. Little fumble, can't hold on to the football.
    喜欢脱手，抓不紧球。
24. After all, you don't want the person you are getting ready to have sex with staring at you as you fumble with a condom.
    毕竟，你并不希望在你苦苦探索如何佩戴避孕套的时候，那位你正准备发生性行为的伴侣一直凝视着你。
25. Next time, I find someone fumble my things, you will know what would happen.
    下次，我再发现有人动我的东西，你们就会知道会发生什么。
26. We completed the difficult experiment without a fumble.
    我们顺利地完成了困难的实验。
27. The university party organization in the fumble to joins a political party in the activist raise education work, summarized some to join a political party the activist raise education experience.
    高校党组织在摸索对入党积极分子培养教育的工作中，总结了一些对入党积极分子培养教育的经验。
28. Then she aimed the weapon with both hands, closed her eyes, and squeezed the trigger. Before he could even fumble at his belt, she pulled the trigger.
    然后她用双手持枪瞄准，闭上双眼，扣动了扳机。那人正要伸手到枪袋里，这边已经扳动枪机了。
29. Working out why is one of those debates in which academic economists fumble through murky data to construct tentative conclusions, which are then seized as weapons in an intense political debate about fairness and equality.
    其中的原因何在，是学术界经济学家辩论的议题之一，他们试图通过模糊的数据摸索出暂时的结论。而后，在围绕公正和平等问题的政治激辩中，这些结论被当成了武器。
30. I slowly carrying out, slowly fumble, of course what redound gives me is more and more joyance.
    我慢慢的实践着、慢慢的摸索、当然回报给我的是越来越多的喜悦。

noun

1. (sports) dropping the ball

   Synonym:    muff

verb

1. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
   1. fumble a grounder

2. handle clumsily

3. feel about uncertainly or blindly
   1. She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom

   Synonym:    grope

4. make one's way clumsily or blindly
   1. He fumbled towards the door

   Synonym:    blunder

5. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   1. I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
   2. the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

   Synonym:    botchbodgebumblebotch upmuffblowflubscrew upball upspoilmuck upbunglefluffbollixbollix upbollocksbollocks upbobblemishandlelouse upfoul upmess upfuck up