blundering

we were blundering around in the darkness.

我们在黑暗中地摸索。

Darwin himself said it: "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature.

达尔文自己说过：“对于自然笨拙、浪费、粗俗而极其悲惨的作品，一魔鬼牧师的书还能写些什么呢？”（这话来自达尔文给胡克的信。