1·She made a clumsy attempt to apologize.
她本想道歉，但词语生硬。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Even HP's clumsy attempt to identify the leaky director was arguably part of the effort to raise standards.
甚至惠普试图指认泄密董事的笨拙举措，也可被证明是其试图提高公司公司管理标准的一部分。
3·In my clumsy attempt to quickly grab the phone, I knocked it off the kitchen counter and cracked the screen.
我手忙脚乱地去抓手机时，不小心从厨房台子上碰掉了，摔坏了屏幕。
4·But although all this was troubling, Angela Merkel's attempt to fix it has been spectacularly clumsy.
除去所有这些麻烦之外，安吉拉·默克尔试图修复它们的企图则更是笨拙的令人发指。
5·You may be crude and clumsy, wasteful and ineffective, but if you sincerely tryto help, your attempt produces nothing but good.
你也许是粗陋而笨拙的，浪费而低能的，但是如果你真诚地试行帮助旁人，你的尝试必然产生善。