【迷你小對話1】
A: I want to get the house painted. It is getting a bit dirty and dingy.
B: Make sure you hire the experts to do it. You’re so clumsy and awkward. You’ll probably fall off the ladder and hurt yourself.
A: 我想把房子刷一下。房子變得又髒又暗了。
B: 那你得找幾個行家來刷。你笨手笨腳的,説不定會從梯子上摔下來受傷的。
【迷你小對話2】
A: Oh no! Someone has put his hand in Grandma’s birthday cake! Who could have done it?
B: I bet Roger did it. He is so ham-handed, always dropping things and walking into walls. It’s just another of his accidents.
A: 天啊!有人把手插到奶奶的生日蛋糕裏了!會是誰幹的呢?
B: 一定是Roger,他毛手毛腳的,不是掉東西就是走路撞牆。這肯定又是他一不小心乾的。
【語言點精講】
clumsy: 手腳笨拙的。樣子不優雅的。
awkward: 手腳笨拙的`,不靈巧的。不熟練的。
ham-handed: 笨拙的。
dingy: 暗淡的,泛黃的。