awkward

英 ['??kw?d] 美['?kw?d]

反義詞

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副詞:?awkwardly;名詞:?awkwardness;

【記】音：坳口，讀起來很坳口，就是笨拙不好說；
2. 諧音“拗口的”
3. awkward-awk(拗口)+?ward(word)----拗口的詞-?說起來很笨拙

awkward 笨拙的

awk-,錯誤方向，-ward,朝向。引申詞義笨拙的。

awkward: awkward: [14] When awkward was coined, in Scotland and northern England, it meant ‘turned in the wrong direction’. Middle English had an adjective awk, which meant ‘the wrong way round, backhanded’, and hence ‘perverse’, and with the addition of the suffix -ward this became awkward. Awk itself was adopted from Old Norse afugr, which is related to German ab ‘away’ and English off. Awkward followed a similar semantic path to awk, via ‘perverse, illadapted’ to ‘clumsy’.
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awkward (adj.): mid-14c., "in the wrong direction," from awk "back-handed" + adverbial suffix -weard (see -ward). Meaning "clumsy" first recorded 1520s. Related: Awkwardly. Other formations from awk, none of them surviving, were awky, awkly, awkness.

1. Unfortunately, Grandma always seems to awaken at awkward moments.: 不幸的是，奶奶好像總是醒來的不是時候。

2. Alexandra looked plump and awkward in her cast-off clothing.: 亞歷山德拉穿著那身過時的衣裳，顯得臃腫笨拙。

5. It was small but heavy enough to make it awkward to carry.: 它雖然小，但很重，不便攜帶。