A gawky adolescent boy.

笨手笨脚的小伙子长得高大笨拙的男孩

Of a scrawny build;spindly or gawky .

骨瘦如柴的;瘦长的或笨拙的

One day he saw Lincoln--a tall, shambling man, long, bony, gawky , but tremendously impressive

有一天他看见林肯--一个脚步踉踉的高个子，又瘦又长，笨手笨脚的，但是给人以极其深刻的印象。

||1: He had made his name on the professional golfing scene at 19, still a gawky lad continually hitching up his trousers, throwing away a lead with sublime impatience at Royal Birkdale in 1976. He left the scene early, too. ||2: At Augusta in 1986, when he lost the Masters with a clumsy 4-iron shot into water at the 15th, he felt his touch was fading. ||3: Increasingly through the 1990s he missed the cut for tournaments and slid down the rankings of players. Back pain crippled him. ||4: His marriage broke up, leaving him alone in the huge new house he had built at Pedrea with display cases full of silver cups and an 18-hole course in the garden, and in 2008 he was diagnosed with the brain cancer that killed him.

||1:早在19岁，巴耶斯德罗斯就在一场职业高尔夫球赛中一举成名。那是1976年皇家伯克戴尔赛，还是个笨手笨脚的毛头小伙子的他，时不时提提自己的裤子，毫无耐心让他失去领先优势。||2:1986年美国奥古斯塔大师赛，第十五洞时他用四号铁杆一个极烂的开球把球打入水障，因而痛失冠军，那时候那感觉自己的技术一日不如一日了。||3:90年代，他渐渐在各种赛事中失去优势，排名也逐渐下滑。背痛让他几乎残疾。||4:婚姻破裂后，他自己孤单一人生活在佩德尼亚的豪宅中，家里橱窗中摆满了银质奖杯，花园里是18洞的高尔夫球场。2008年他被诊断为患有脑癌，并最终因此去世。

Nor are the rules of algebra governed by social conventions: a gawky 14-year-old who clams up in interviews can still do well.

社会习俗也绝然不能支配代数学的规律：一名在面试中沉默笨拙的14岁小孩仍然能够在这方面做的很好（指代数）。