跌撞 meaning in Chinese

blunder

There was a smell thomas recognized, as he stumbled down the hill under the weight of his friend .
托马斯在他朋友重压下跌跌撞撞地奔下山去的时候，闻到一股他所熟悉的气味。
But the ball is tipped
但是球还是跌撞着出去了
Collins , a sociologist at cardiff university in wales who has studied the field ' s halting expansion from a backwater of physics to big science
柯林斯正在研究该领域蹒跚跌撞的发展状况，看它如何由物理中的丑小鸭，跃变成大科学。