awkward position
基本解释
- 令人不舒服的姿态
- 难堪的地位
英汉例句
- As we waited in that room, Liz on her back in that awkward position once again, the tension grew while we anticipated the findings.
我们在房间里等待时,利兹又再次回到了那个尴尬的处境里,当我们猜测着结果的时候,气氛变得更加紧张了。 - The finding leaves palaeontologists in the awkward position of having to identify another creature as the oldest and original avian on which to base the story of birdlife.
这次发现令古生物学家陷入一个尴尬的位置,他们不得不去识别认可另一种生物作为最古老最起初的鸟类,让鸟类种群的故事建立在它之上。 - So he's in the awkward position of already being talked about as a rival for his boss's job.
他现在的处境比较尴尬,毕竟这是在染指他现在老板的工作。 - It's sad,but that's the case." Many experts say the resolution by the House Foreign Affairs Committee puts President Obama in an awkward position.
- 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.
- "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,"
- It places Americans in the awkward position of weighing their patriotism against their vocation.
ECONOMIST: International taxation
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- In an awkward position 处境尴尬;不死不活
- an awkward position 令人难堪的地位
- put in an awkward position 使处于尴尬〖可笑〗的境地
- Get Into An Awkward Position 陷入窘境
- Be In An Awkward Position 受窘
短语
专业释义
- 尴尬地位