ungainly
- Ejemplos
Keep my ungainly thoughts out of my mind. | Mantén mis pensamientos desordenados fuera de mi mente. |
Your methods may be ungainly, Dr. Bertrand. | Sus métodos pueden ser torpes, Dr. Bertrand. |
The machines were ungainly, inefficient, brainless, and would often break down. | Eran torpes, ineficientes, sin cerebro, y con frecuencia se averiaban. |
Men usually feel ungainly when it comes to visiting doctors and deliberating issues like this. | Los hombres suelen sentirse torpe cuando se trata de visitar médicos y deliberar temas como este. |
Men usually feel ungainly when going to a doctor and debating issues like this. | Los hombres suelen sentirse torpe al ir a un médico y el debate de temas como este. |
He was a tall and ungainly man, with a burning red face and pale blue eyes. | Era un hombre alto y desgarbado, de encendida cara rojiza y ojos celestes. |
Means of production adapted for individual use; hence primitive, ungainly, petty, dwarfed in action. | Medios de producción adaptados al uso individual, y, por tanto, primitivos, torpes, mezquinos, de eficacia mínima. |
Thus, Le-Tran's Huey is boxy, almost rectangular; it is ungainly, unbearably clunky-looking. | Por ende, el Huey de Le y Trans es como una caja, casi rectangular; es desgarbado, intolerablemente poco atractivo. |
The combination of Greek and Roman styles, superimposing one another, succeeds in producing a rather ungainly effect. | La combinación de los estilos griegos y romanos, sobreponiendo uno otro, tiene éxito en producir un efecto algo ungainly. |
He was physically impressive with his broad shoulders, his square build and his somewhat ungainly yet solid walk. | Físicamente, se distinguía por sus hombros anchos, su alta estatura y su paso un poco pesado pero sólido. |
Likewise you and I can look at ourselves and all looks awry, dark, and ungainly, only a tangled mass. | De igual forma, vosotros y yo podemos mirarnos, y todo parece torcido, oscuro e inservible, una masa amorfa. |
She had a wild, ungainly look about her, suggesting that she was not accustomed to finery even if it were available. | Echó un rápido vistazo, mostrando poco interés, sugiriendo que no estaba acostumbrada a refinamientos, ni siquiera aunque estuvieran a su alcance. |
Though traditionally depicted as ungainly and awkward when on the ground, the anatomy of some pterosaurs (particularly pterodactyloids) suggests that they were competent walkers and runners. | Aunque tradicionalmente representados como desgarbados y torpes cuando estaban en el suelo, la anatomía de algunos pterosaurios (particularmente pterodactiloides) sugiere que eran caminantes y corredores competentes. |
The cloud closed her eyes and rested while the seagulls flew with elegant indifference and the pelicans did so in a more clumsy and ungainly way. | Cerró los ojos y descansó, mientras que las gaviotas volaban con elegante desgano y los pelícanos lo hacían de manera torpe y desgarbada. |
The term, in Modern Greek, also indicates a creature with ungainly movements as well as an articulated figure that is manipulated by a puppeteer. | Término (griego moderno) que significa tanto una criatura que se mueve de forma desordenada como una figura articulada y manipulada por un titiritero. |
An ungainly, unlikely, inelegant combination of differences, India nonetheless survives and functions remarkably well as a political unit with a democratic system. | India, una torpe, insólita y poco elegante combinación de diferencias, ha sobrevivido a pesar de todo y funciona correctamente como unidad política regida por un sistema democrático. |
Sherwood states in her autobiography that she was tall and ungainly for her age and that she hid in the woods with her doll to escape visitors. | Sherwood declaró en su autobiografía que era alta y torpe para su edad y que se escondía en el bosque con su muñeca para evadir a los visitantes. |
When people think of Jethro Tull, the first image that comes to mind is that of an ungainly and disheveled man, with a long coat, playing a flute resting on a single foot. | Cuando la gente piensa en Jethro Tull la primera imagen que viene a la mente es la de ese hombre desgarbado y desaliñado, con un largo abrigo, tocando una flauta apoyado sobre un único pie. |
They held them at the ready, and thus were prepared when, only moments later, a reckless wave of shadowy opponents emerged from the city and forest and rushed toward them in an ungainly swarm. | Las sostuvieron preparadas, y por lo tanto estaban listos cuando, solo unos momentos después, una temeraria oleada de oponentes sombríos surgió de la ciudad y el bosque y corrieron hacia ellos desgarbada y alocadamente. |
It might seem ungainly to carry a small instrument in the off-hand, but great power can be contained in a perfect sphere, inhuman skull or tome of forbidden script scrawled in the tongues of kingdoms past. | Puede parecer inútil llevar un instrumento pequeño en la mano izquierda, pero puede haber gran poder en una esfera geométricamente perfecta, un cráneo inhumano o un tomo de escrituras prohibidas en lenguas de reinos ancestrales. |
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