(figurative) mental/verbal gymnastics (= quick or clever thinking or use of words)

a gymnastics competition

体操比赛

Financial advisers at a bigger firm can ask colleagues and managers introductions to potential partners.

大机构的理财顾问可以请同事和经理帮忙介绍搭档.

I presume most financial advisers are ethical and competent.

我以为大多数财务顾问都德才兼备.

They had come at a good bat up the slope and were a little out of breath.

他们飞快地走上斜坡，因而有点上气不接下气。

Most 17-year-old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class.

男人：大部分17岁的小伙子还热衷于交换棒球卡、在体育课之后打打闹闹。

Donnie, this is no time for the wedgie dance.

多尼，现在不是参加舞会。

Hiking with a wedgie is no fun.

穿着坡跟鞋远足也一点都不好玩。

He kept bumbling on about his operation, but I didn't really understand all the details.

他一直含混地大谈手术经过, 但对那些细节我根本就听不懂.

Like bumbling burglars who leave fingerprints at a crime scene, cooking oils leave their own clues.

就像在犯罪现场留下指纹的笨贼, 食用油也会留下蛛丝马迹.

He instead blamed his bumbling and at times incomprehensible performance on an overdose of cold medicine.

相反,他将自己讲话含糊、不时做出匪夷所思举动的表现归咎于过量服用感冒药.

Its foreign and defence ministries displayed a bumbling incompetence that actively encouraged the Argentine folly.

外交部和国防部长的无能有力的怂恿了阿根廷的愚蠢.

What is she bumbling on about?

她在瞎说些什么呀?

The bumbling of our salesman cost us the account.

推销员所犯的错误使我们失去了那位客户.

The old man bumbling on about how the accident occurred.

老人喃喃不清地叙述着事故的起因.

He kept bumbling on about something.

他结结巴巴地说个不停.

I don't know what he has done, he just bumbles through life.

我不知道他做了些什么事, 他简直是在混日子.

He somehow bumbled through four years of college.

他胡乱地在大学里混了四年.

The ancient empire was crushed and bumbled into the dust.

这个古老的帝国被摧毁,遭到了奇耻大辱.

He bumbled through his speech.

他结结巴巴地讲完了他的演说.

Don't bumble through life like that.

不能这样混日子.