awkward是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 难使用的; 笨拙的; 尴尬的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He broke the awkward silence by saying: 'This is something new to me, Mr. Lorry.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid, awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives.
-- Awkward as it was for Levin to withdraw now, it would still have been easier for him to perpetrate this awkwardness than to remain all the evening and see Kitty, who glanced at him now and then and avoided his eyes.
-- said Konstantin Levin to Kritsky, to break the awkward silence that followed.
-- At that instant Alexey Alexandrovitch did in fact walk into the room with his calm, awkward gait.
-- It was all so simple, but he took it so awkwardly, and was so long thanking me, that I felt awkward too.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He quickly concealed himself in his cabin, to avoid an awkward explanation, and hoped thanks to the number of passengers to remain unperceived by Mr. Fogg's servant.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the class, the small giggling animals, they stood delighted, hoping for more, and Gottlieb shrugged, glared them into terror, sent the least awkward of them for the rabbits, and went on, curiously quiet.
-- He ran down, he dropped his awkward bag on the platform and, unaware of the gaping furry farmers, they were lost in a kiss.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was only asked out of kind-ness and because he was sharing the same room with Pyotr Petrovitch and was a friend of his, so that it would have been awkward not to invite him.'
-- 'It's an awkward one, but important.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the very first evening after our arrival, Mr. Barkis appeared inan exceedingly vacant and awkward condition, and with a bundleof oranges tied up in a handkerchief.
-- 'Yourregulation is rather awkward to strangers,' said Miss Murdstone.
-- I was awkward enough intheir games, and backward enough in their studies; but customwould improve me in the first respect, I hoped, and hard work inthe second.
-- Every one appeared to feel thata parting of that sort was an awkward thing, and that the nearer itapproached, the more awkward it was.
-- 'So, Mr. Wickfield,' said I, at last, 'who is worth five hundred ofyou- or me'; for my life, I think, I could not have helped dividingthat part of the sentence with an awkward jerk; 'has beenimprudent, has he, Mr.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner, and the uncouthness of a voice which I heard to be wholly unmodulated as I stood here.'
-- Mr. Martin is now awkward and abrupt; what will he be at Mr. Weston's time of life?'
-- With the view of passing off an awkward moment, Emma smilingly said, 'You must make my apologies to your friend; but so good a charade must not be confined to one or two.
-- After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by every body, he proceeded to say, with an air of grave reflection, 'It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here.
-- Another room of much better size might be secured for the purpose; but it was at the other end of the house, and a long awkward passage must be gone through to get at it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Tis a' awkward gift for a man, poor soul," said the maltster.
-- For ye see, shepherd, though 'tis very well for a woman, dang it all, 'tis awkward for a man like him, poor feller?"
-- "Yes, very awkward for the man."
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