butter=黄油，finger=手指，那butterfingers是啥意思呢？

【朗读以下例句，并用今日表达造句】

I dropped another plate! I guess I just have butterfingers today.

Can you sew this button on for me? I'm all fingers and thumbs.

It would be an honor to dance with you, but you need to lead. I have two left feet.

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【精讲部分】

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butterfingers

笨手笨脚/毛手毛脚的(人)

可以说

人 + have butterfingers

人 + be a butterfingers

【解释】

Someone who is clumsy and often drops things or else fails to catch something.

This phrase comes from the idea that hands covered with butter will be slippery, making holding on to anything difficult.

【例句】

I dropped another plate! I guess I just have butterfingers today.

我又掉了一个盘子！我感觉我今天真是毛手毛脚的。

Coach, don't put that butterfingers Jimmy in the outfield!

教练，别把那个笨手笨脚的吉米放在外场!

“Butterfingers!" she called as I dropped the plates.

“真是笨手笨脚的！”我把盘子弄掉的时候她叫到。

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人 + be all (fingers and) thumbs

某人笨手笨脚的

【解释】

Clumsy(笨拙的) or uncoordinated(不协调的) with one's hands. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.

【例句】

Can you sew this button on for me? I'm all fingers and thumbs.

你能帮我缝上这颗扣子吗？我笨手笨脚的。

Tom could never be a surgeon—he's all fingers and thumbs.

汤姆永远不可能成为外科医生——他笨手笨脚的。

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have two left feet

字面意思：有两只左脚

实际意思：（跳舞等时）笨手笨脚的

【解释】

to move in a very awkward way when dancing:

【例句】

It would be an honor to dance with you, but you need to lead. I have two left feet.

如果能和您共舞一曲将不胜荣幸，但是要你来领舞。我这人笨手笨脚的

When we danced together, I discovered he had two left feet.

我们那时一起跳舞的时候，我发现他笨手笨脚的。