Day 350 morning 2021
fumble：笨拙的做
拟声词，模仿笨拙的声音。比较 bumble, stumble.
bumble：笨拙
拟声词，笨手笨脚的声音。
stumble：跌跌撞撞地走；绊倒
It is for that purpose, again, that I have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six. I shall certainly try to make my portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not at all sure of success. One drawing goes along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject. I make some errors, too, in the little prince’s height: in one place he is too tall and in another too short. And I feel some doubts about the color of his costume. So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair to middling.
