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To handle something clumsily with your hands, almost dropping it or struggling to hold it — like fumbling with your keys in the dark. In sports, especially American football, to fumble means to accidentally drop the ball. It's also used for messing up an action , like fumbling an answer in an interview.
（笨拙地）摸索、亂摸；漏接、掉球；（尷尬地）搞砸
組成does not split cleanly; likely from an old Scandinavian word for groping or fumbling.
原始詞典資料10 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。
fumbleverb詞源 1/ˈfʌmbəl/
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To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
- He fumbled the key into the lock.
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To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- He fumbled for his keys.
- He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
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To blunder uncertainly.
- He fumbled through his prepared speech.
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To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- to fumble for an excuse
- My understanding stutters, and my memory fumbles.
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hobbieslifestylesportsTo drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- Henderson's best strike on goal saw goalkeeper Kingson uncomfortably fumble his measured shot around the post.
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To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
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obsoleteslangOf a man, to sexually underperform.
fumblenoun詞源 1/ˈfʌmbəl/
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American-footballball-gamesfootballA ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
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A clumsy sexual encounter.
- Suzy and Jimmy had a fumble behind the bike shed.
fumblenoun詞源 2/ˈfʌmbəl/
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A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
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。