Torpe in english
Clumsy
pronunciation: klʌmzi part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: klʌmzi part of speech: adjective
In gestures
torpe1 = clumsy ; gauche ; dull ; heavy-handed ; gawky ; ham-handed ; ham-fisted ; clotted ; awkward ; lumbering ; oafish ; slow-witted ; bungling ; ungainly.
Example: Such solutions after repeated application cause the catalog to become a clumsy, inefficient tool, and serve only to compound future problems.Example: But influence of the gauche Aldine greek of the 1490s, and then of the superb reinterpretations of Garamont (1540s) and Granjon (1560s), was irresistible.Example: Then there are those children made to think themselves failures because of the hammer-blow terms like dull, backward, retarded, underprivileged, disadvantaged, handicapped, less able, slow, rejected, remedial, reluctant, disturbed.Example: The often heavy-handed paternalism of Soviet children's literature is being challenged and children are being entrusted with real situations and real problems rather than the idealistic, rose-coloured version of reality previously thought suitable for them.Example: His zany humor, gawky production, and sexual exhibitionism have grown in this new film into a confident, ironic account of a world in which it pays to be rich and beautiful.Example: The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.Example: They must ponder how not only to prevent such tragedies in future, but also to avoid worsening them through ham-fisted intervention.Example: Although he occasionally lapses into a sort of clotted prose, his book is a valuable study of McLuhan's cultural and geographical context.Example: Access is impaired by archaic, awkward, or simply strange headings that most normal persons would never look for on their first try.Example: He is presented in the movie as a somewhat comical character, with a lumbering but pleasant clumsiness as he walks through doors and into furniture.Example: Naturally, like a good mother, she always reproved us for bad manners, or for being unkind to other children, or selfish, or affected, or oafish, or sulky.Example: People who talk fast tend to be seen as not trustworthy, while those who speak too slowly are usually perceived as slow-witted or overly pedantic.Example: A bungling burglar dived into a river and then proceeded to do the backstroke as police in Florida chased the robber by boat.Example: Secondly, zebras can be ungainly when they run -- it is all legs, arse and tail.more:
» de una manera torpe = awkwardly ; cumbrously .
Example: However, the rules of 1908 and 1949 included no such provision, save in the case of anonymous works where this was accomplished awkwardly and indirectly by the use of added entries under the original title. Example: In order to avoid cumbrously constructed sentences, the term 'library' henceforth will be used in this introduction to encompass 'libraries,' 'media centers,' and 'information systems'.» ser torpe con las manos = be all (fingers and) thumbs .
Example: The first time I did it I was all fingers and thumbs, but practice brings the reward of ease.» ser torpe para + Infinitivo = be deficient in + Gerundio .
Example: It is a well-known fact that they're grossly deficient in identifiying talented minority children, and, for that matter, girls.» ser un poco torpe = be slow on the uptake ; be a button short ; have + a button missing .
Example: First off, I can be mighty slow on the uptake about things like this, because I usually pay little heed to the conventions that dictate you. Example: He is a button short, if you don't mind my saying so. Example: Payley is retarded and described by Ruth as having a 'button missing'.torpe2 = blunderer.
Example: So they aren't going to be able to teach it to them and those bastards will go on fouling up, making blunderers out of people who will then be turned loose to convince more generations of people that math is terrible stuff.more:
» torpes, los = dull-witted, the [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .
Example: It is mistaken to think this inarticulateness is confined to the ill-educated or dull-witted.