Afghan analyst Candace Rondeaux of the International Crisis Group says that puts the United States in an awkward position because the U.S.and Mr.Karzai are inextricably linked in Afghan minds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

It's impossible to get away with such an awkward reading, but that's the reading that the metrical form is pushing us into producing.

但不得不读的这么这么别扭,抑扬格的韵律格式迫使我们这样读。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So just as we had to escape things with backslashes in an awkward way, same deal with percent in this context.

所以就像我们采用笨拙的方式来用反斜杠来避免一些东西,在这个背景下对百分号做相同的处理。

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involves an awkward collision of different artistic modes and entirely distinct planes of reality.

这对于约翰逊的影响牵扯到不同艺术模式的怪异碰撞,以及和现实世界的完全脱离。

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This tends to be an awkward expression or term that is used by historians.

这个表达并不准确,但是仍被历史学家使用

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It was awkward teaching an introduction Y and probably for that reason while I was teaching Lit 300, which was then called Lit Y, Z Paul de Man was teaching Lit Z.

教入门课非常尴尬,也许正因为这样，我教文学300时，当时它还叫文学，保罗，德，曼教教文学。

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If we weren't so pressed for time, I kinda wanna see how long we could get away with this before it gets awkward, but that, in fact, is an infinite loop t hat's hopefully deliberate.

如果有时间，我想看看,我们需要花多长时间解决这一问题，事实上，它是我故意,使用的无穷循环。

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So this, too, fairly straightforward and yet and this was a socially awkward moment I had to ask her are you an adult or a senior?

这个也相当简单,这是一个社会尴尬的时候,我必须问她是一张成人票还是老人票？

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