She made a clumsy attempt to apologize.

她本想道歉，但词语生硬。

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Martha gave her hand a clumsy little shake, as if she was not accustomed to this sort of thing either.

玛莎笨拙地轻轻摇了一下她的手，似乎她也不习惯这种事。

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They sat down and he took a clumsy little brown paper package out of his coat pocket.

他们坐下来，他从外套口袋里掏出一个笨拙的棕色小纸包。

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"If it is just the first step, we can give Medvedev the benefit of the doubt, though this step is probably rather a clumsy one.

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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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Yet it is proving to be a clumsy solution to a complex problem.

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Another tells of a clumsy wizard who caused a rainbow to collapse into the Lago di Carezza, a lake which still glows a luminous green to this day.

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But the devil is more likely to be found in the execution details, and good strategic choices executed in a clumsy manner are not a recipe for success.

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