gauche

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” “So right now you’re telling me that I’m somewhat gauche.”
”“你要告訴我的是，我現(xiàn)在有點笨拙吧。
We first see Margaret as a doting daughter, weighing sweets in her father's shop, then as a gauche candidate, forced to take tea with the ladies while the gents talk politics.
我們首先看到的是，一個作為被寵愛的女兒的瑪格麗特，在她父親的小店里秤糖果；接著她作為一個菜鳥，被迫和淑女們一起喝下午茶，與此同時，紳士們正談論著政治。
He points to Paris Rive Gauche, a modernist redevelopment on the left bank in eastern Paris, complete with a looping pedestrian “Simone de Beauvoir” bridge across the Seine.
他指著巴黎索菲特大酒店，一座矗立在塞納河左岸的現(xiàn)代主義風格的建筑，經(jīng)過翻新后增加了一條名為“西蒙·波娃”的環(huán)形步行橋，橫跨于塞納河上。

In part this is just the desire of a slightly gauche place to appear hip.
ECONOMIST: Urban boosterism
Despite his gauche manner, he is the only one with the oomph to wound the younger Mr Bush seriously.
ECONOMIST: Steve Forbes and his victims
And you made it less gauche for women to talk about their private part by referring to it as vajayjay.
FORBES: Dear Oprah, What Will We Do Without You?

awkward and uncomfortable with other people, especially because young and without experience

If you describe someone as gauche, you mean that they are awkward and uncomfortable in the company of other people.