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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba was unable to direct her will into any definite groove for freeing herself from this fearfully awkward position.
-- Unfortunately for Troy a current unknown to him existed outside, which, unimportant to craft of any burden, was awkward for a swimmer who might be taken in it unawares.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the awkward incident at Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wistaria tumbling over the verandas showed bright against the whitewashed brick, and it joined with the pinkcr脙陋pe myrtle bushes by the door and the white-blossomed magnolias in the yard to disguise some of the awkward linesof the house.
-- She saw Honey's awkward wigglings and heard hersilly titters as she hung onto boys' arms, and the thought stung her to new rage, rage at herself, at Ashley, at the world.
-- She tied the other end to the back of the wagon, as securely as her awkward fingers wouldpermit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heavy in figure, movement, and comprehension,--in the sluggish complexion of his face, and in the large, awkward tongue that seemed to loll about in his mouth as he himself lolled about in a room,--he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A very awkward pause on Mr. Bounderby's part, succeeded.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then my uncle, myself, and guide, two boatmen and the four horses got into a very awkward flat-bottom boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her great staring child tenderly embraced her; and having smoothed her hair, and bathed her forehead and eyes with cold water (offices in which her awkward hands became skilful), hugged her again, exulted in her brighter looks, and stationed her in her chair by the window.
-- Arthur felt an awkward consciousness of having, in his exultant condition, been a little premature.
-- 'Well, my love, that really is an awkward question for me to answer,' said her sister.
-- 'I account for it, sir,' she pursued after an awkward silence on Mr Dorrit's part, 'by having no doubt that he is travelling somewhere, or hiding somewhere.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- inquired Mr. Brooke, breaking an awkward pause.
-- I've tried, because one feels awkward in company not to do as everybody else id doing, but I don't seem to get on', said Jo, forgetting to play mentor.
-- I'm homely and awkward and odd and old, and you'd be ashamed of me, and we should quarrel we can't help it even now, you see-and I shouldn't like elegant society and you would, and you'd hate my scribbling, and I couldn't get on without it, and we should be unhappy, and wish we hadn't done it, and everything would be horrid!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered: 'What a fine thing capital punishment is!Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give.
-- cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; 'and I am persuaded that when sanc-tioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable.'
-- Elizabeth quietly answered 'Undoubtedly;' and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family.
-- It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
-- She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would make the reader pity me, or rather laugh at me, to tell how many awkward ways I took to raise this paste; what odd, misshapen, ugly things I made; how many of them fell in and how many fell out, the clay not being stiff enough to bear its own weight; how many cracked by the over-violent heat of the sun, being set out too hastily; and how many fell in pieces with only removing, as well before as after they were dried; and, in a word, how, after having laboured hard to find the clay - to dig it, to temper it, to bring it home, and work it - I could not make above two large earthen ugly things (I cannot call them jars) in about two months' labour.
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