Don't permit children to refer to themselves as losers, failures, stupid, or clumsy.

不允许孩子说自己是失败者，失败，愚蠢，或笨拙。

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The central meaning Shared by these verbs is. To harm or spoil through inept or clumsy handling.

这些动词的中心意思都是。因处理得愚蠢或笨拙而损害或毁坏。

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It doesn't matter if the words you use to reveal the truth are written or spoken, poetic or clumsy.

你用来揭示出真理的话是写出来的，还是说出来的，是有诗意还是笨拙都不重要。

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And even once we acquire those skillful movements the circuits that produce those movements need to be continually recalibrated as the body changes, as it grows and then ages we need to make those recalibrations or our movements will again become clumsy like those of a child.

即使你掌握了这些复杂的动作，产生这些动作的神经回路还会根据你的体态不断作出调整,随着这些回路的老化，你要做的这些调整，或者说动作又会像孩提时那样,变得笨拙起来。

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Mere misunderstandings or clumsy answers on the form are not a crime.

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It was better to backtrack, every move elegantly reversed, than to climb in a clumsy or scrappy way.

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As a simple example, if Alice saw Bob trip over a rock and fall, Alice might consider Bob to be clumsy or careless (dispositional).

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