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Awkwardness is the uncomfortable, feeling you get in a situation that feels wrong or difficult - like when there is a silence nobody knows how to break. It can also describe movement, like the awkwardness of a first attempt at dancing.
尷尬;笨拙
組成awkward (uncomfortable, clumsy) + -ness (a noun ending meaning "the state of being...")
同家族的字
- awkwardthe same root word, just without "-ness"
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
awkwardnessnoun
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The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
- […] instead of the joyous voices of his playfellows he hears the rough commands of an unindulgent master or a scolding mistress; — he is continually reproached for his awkwardness and timidity, and reminded of his pauper origin.
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The quality of an embarrassing situation.
- Such awkwardnesses indicate that Lenin was conscious of the daily erosion of what few democratic institutions remained, but wished from time to time to invoke the virtuous-sounding name of democracy.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。