It's more likely that none of us start a conversation because it's awkward and challenging.
更有可能的情况是，我们当没人开始说话，因为既尴尬又具有挑战性。
Messing up with the girls in your social circle can be a very awkward and embarrassing experience.
和社交圈里的女孩搞糟关系是一种非常棘手和让人尴尬的经验。
The 12-year old is a little awkward and nervous in front of strangers, until the music begins.
这位12岁的小女生在陌生人面前还有些腼腆和紧张，直到音乐响起来。
I felt awkward asking patients to literally take a placebo. But to my surprise, it seemed to work for many of them.
对我来说，叫病人服用所谓的安慰剂简直不可思议，不过令人惊讶的是，这似乎对很多人都管用。
They try to take her child but she clings on even as she falls to her knees beside a body, limbs awkward and misshapen, head broken like a duck's egg.
人们让出一条道来给她通过，有些人试图帮她抱住孩子，但她不让，她跪倒在尸体旁，尸体的四肢扭曲而畸形，头破的像打破的鸭子蛋。
In spite of the awkward questions the minister never let his guard fall for a moment.
尽管遇到的是些令人尴尬的问题，部长却没有丝毫的失误。
There was a widely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainly because of its numbered accounts and bankers' reluctance to ask awkward questions of depositors.
人们普遍认为，瑞士对富有的外国人来说是不可抗拒的，主要是因为它的账户编号，以及银行家不愿向储户提出尴尬的问题。
Japanese today find it's less awkward to reject a proposed partner if the nakodo is a computer.
如今日本人发现，如果nakodo是一台电脑，那么拒绝求婚伴侣就不那么尴尬了。
We all know that silences can be pretty awkward, and research shows that even short disruptions in conversational flow can lead to a sharp rise in distress levels.
我们都知道沉默是很尴尬的，研究表明，即使是谈话过程中的短暂中断也会导致痛苦程度的急剧上升。
If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking again is to give the host a compliment.
如果你在宴会上遇到了尴尬的沉默，唯一能让所有人再次说起话的办法就是说句恭维主人的话。
Let's face it, fewer moments are more awkward than trying to strike up a casual conversation with someone you don't know very well.
让我们一起正视这个问题，没有什么时刻会比在正式场合和不怎么熟稔的人对话更为尴尬的了。
This is an awkward place for a technology company with deep roots in media to find itself.
对于一个拥有深远渊源技术公司，这是他们发现自己在媒体中尴尬的地方。
Now that he has faded so dreadfully, he's destined for a dreadful, awkward summer of anguish and second-guessing his play.
既然他退步的这么快，他注定要过一个痛苦，尴尬的夏天，好好评价自己的表现。
They treat empty space like an awkward pause in a conversation that should be filled as soon as possible with smalltalk.
他们视空白为谈话中尴尬的停顿，因此总想办法立即补上一段寒暄用语。
Slawenski's prose is serviceable at best, and he has a weakness for awkward formulations. ("Yet Ray has not depleted all of the reader's condemnation.
斯拉文斯基的书勉强可以一读，不过笨拙的表述将他的弱点暴露无遗。
But when that day approaches, it will raise awkward questions of a postwar balance of power in the Pacific that has been kept largely thanks to the US presence.
但是，当那一天逼近时，它将对战后太平洋地区的均势提出棘手的问题，迄今这一均势在很大程度上是由于美军的存在而得到保持的。
We looked like a bunch of awkward kids riding a slow-moving carousel.
我们看起来就像一群骑在旋转木马上的笨拙的孩子。
Gaining feedback from both the production-line workers and the component suppliers is a long and awkward process.
要从生产线工人和零件供应商那获得反馈是又长又尴尬的过程。
Still, imagine an office full of of scandalized and perverted stares as you exit the bathroom or bend down to pick up a pencil — awkward?
然而可以想象，一个充满震惊、歪想的凝滞目光的办公室里，当你退出洗手间或者弯腰去捡起一支铅笔——哇塞，不尴尬？
We recover somehow and have a slightly awkward chat about work and skirting around the events of the weekend.
过了一会儿，我们缓过气来了，有点尴尬地谈起了工作和周末的那些事情。
When people of different cultures get together they sometimes feel shy or awkward. These sentences can make a world of difference.
来自不同文化的人聚在一起时，有时会感到害羞或拘束，这些句子能够使气氛变得完全不一样。
As girls go through puberty, they may sometimes feel a bit awkward.
当女孩们经历青春期时，她们有时可能会感到有些尴尬。
But the next decade, with its awkward teen years, presents a special challenge.
不过，下一个十年是难以把握的十年，为其命名是个特殊的难题。
"Unless you're bossy by nature, telling others what to do and giving them honest feedback on their performance is always a little awkward," Finkelstein says.
芬克尔斯坦说：“除非你的天性就是喜欢指挥别人，否则，在告诉他人该做什么，对他人的表现给予坦率反馈的时候，难免有些尴尬。”
This is a learnable skill like any other, and it probably will feel a bit awkward the first time.
这是一种可习得的技巧，跟其它任何技巧一样，在第一次用时也难免笨手笨脚。
Jessica: Besides a few awkward moments, it was amazing.
杰西卡：除了几个尴尬的时刻外，一切棒极了。
Worse, Miller and Mackey described a prison rife with awkward tension, lovers' quarrels, and public displays of affection.
更糟的是，米勒和麦基描述的监狱充满紧张不安、情侣间争吵以及公开示爱。
While this is potentially a bit awkward, it ensures you won't have naming conflicts with other databases on your system if you're following along (and hopefully you are).
虽然可能有点罗嗦，但如果按照本文实验(希望如此)的话这样可以避免与系统中其他数据库的命名冲突。
His first costume was the same as Hal’s and his second was a really awkward design.
他第一件制服和哈尔的一样，他的第二件制服简直糟糕到了极点。
It can be awkward to snag a photo or a snippet of text from one Web site and send it to a friend in a social network on another, or post it to your own blog.
从一个网站抓取一张图片或一段文字，然后发给另一个网站社群内的朋友、或者张贴到自己的博客上可能会让你感到不便。
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