Fumble

 









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–verb (used without object) 

1. to feel or grope (暗中摸) about clumsily: 



She fumbled [in] her purse for the keys.  



2. Sports. to fumble the ball.  



–verb (used with object) 

3. to make, handle, etc., clumsily or inefficiently: 



to fumble an [attempt] 

He fumbled his way [through] the crowded room. 



4. Sports. to fail to hold or maintain hold on (a ball) after having touched it or carried it.  



–noun 

5. the act of fumbling: We completed the difficult experiment [without a fumble]. 

6. Sports. an act or instance of fumbling the ball.  



—Synonyms 

3. bungle (笨手笨腳地做), botch, mishandle, spoil, muff. (笨拙地處理)





　

There's often a collective sigh when a French actress of a certain age crosses over into roles that are no longer mere displays of sumptuousness. It's sad to think of lost youth, of course, but there's another spectacle at play 



as film directors fumble haltingly [to] present a new kind of beauty—until the actresses simply fall back on their trademark pouts and poses. 



scour

ransack rummage

fumble bumble botch 

Fray









　

Brooklyn-bred Darren Aronofsky has gone to New Jersey and made his NEBRASKA. As spare and haunting as Bruce Springsteen’s acoustic masterwork, Aronofsky’s THE WRESTLER is less [reinvention] than [refinement]:



the relentless self-destruction of mind and body depicted in PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM has merged with THE FOUNTAIN’s search for spiritual grace, 



while his audacious technique has been abandoned for a naturalistic approach that recalls the independent American cinema of the 1970s and 80s. This mostly suits Robert Siegel’s straightforward narrative of 



a past-his-prime professional wrestler’s fumble [for] redemption, 



but it emphatically agrees with Mickey Rourke, who owns the film as the breaking-down Randy "The Ram” Robinson."









　

This is how people find love in "The Best of Youth." They meet in a small kitchen, where one of them calls the other a



klutz (克拉茲, 笨手笨腳的人) for not being able to work the coffee machine. 



They talk about college, and exchange a look. That’s it. And this is how people make out: 



they fumble warmly [in a car], 



beside a phone booth, with no music surging to their aid—unless you count the Roman rain outside, with its soft percussive beat.