The other night I was talking with friends about how awkward it is to meet people at bars.

那天晚上我和几个朋友聊起了酒吧聚会时的尴尬，女孩们讲述了给别人电话号码时的那种沮丧。

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The situation is an awkward one, whichever way you look at it.

无论从哪一方面看，这个局面都很尴尬。

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It was small but heavy enough to make it awkward to carry.

它虽然小，却沉重得不便携带。

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"But,it puts us in a very awkward position because,if we cannot go there ourselves to see what they are doing, to whom they are distributing and what criteria they are using, how much they are keeping for themselves, how much is getting lost, we start losing control over it,"

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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。

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So, it's awkward to have to wait for a cow to get infected before you can vaccinate a population.

在给人们预防接种之前,你只有干等着,直到有一头奶牛感染了病毒才行

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Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man?

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However awkward it may have been for the man whose neighbor was running for office, this system made vote counting transparent and did not require voters to read or write.

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