fumble
n. 摸索, 笨拙的行动, 漏球 vt. 摸索, 乱摸, 笨拙的处理, 漏接(球) vi. 摸索, 笨手笨脚, 漏球
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摸索；笨拙地行动；漏球
摸索；笨拙地做；漏接
释义与例句
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A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
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A clumsy sexual encounter.
Suzy and Jimmy had a fumble behind the bike shed.
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A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
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To handle nervously or awkwardly.
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不及物 及物Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
He fumbled the key into the lock.
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To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
不及物 及物He fumbled for his keys.
He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
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To blunder uncertainly.
不及物He fumbled through his prepared speech.
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To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
to fumble for an excuse
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To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
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To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
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Of a man, to sexually underperform.
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From late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen. Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”. The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“to pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).
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