逐日单词：cumbersome

cumbersome

英 ['k?mb?s?m] 美 ['k?mb?rs?m]

adj.粗笨的；不便利的

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?Usage Examples

(1) The grizzly bear looked cumbersome and awkward.

(2) They are cumbersome on land, but stealthy and sleek in the water.

(3) A tabulation of a function of two variables is cumbersome, but possible.

(4) Donated food can be used for projects only if it is distributed through cumbersome channels such as direct feeding or food-for-work programs.

(1) 灰熊看上去又笨拙又愚钝。

(2) 它们在海洋抬升动笨拙但在水里却敏捷机动。

(3) 二元函数的列表法是不便利的，但是是约莫的。

(4) 赠予的粮食如用于项目，必需经过诸如直接需求大概以粮抵工规化等一些不便利的渠道举行分派。

?Usage notes

You have to wrestle a bit with the longish word cumbersome; it's cumbersome, or kind of long and clumsy, to tumble out in a sentence. It's hard to use it gracefully.

A "cumber" is something that slows you down, and though the words aren't related, "lumber" includes big pieces of heavy wood, which might slow down the person carrying them. Moving lumber is cumbersome, because it's a heavy and awkward job. Getting your laundry down the stairs or putting a Rottweiler in the bathtub can be cumbersome too.

?Collins

1. [ADJ-GRADED 能被表现水平的副词或介词词组修饰的形貌词]大而粗笨的；难以携带的 Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.

① Although the machine looks cumbersome, it is actually easy to use.

只管这台机器看上去很粗笨，利用起来却很容易。

② ...muffled up in thick and cumbersome clothing.

身上裹着厚重的衣服

2. [ADJ-GRADED 能被表现水平的副词或介词词组修饰的形貌词]繁复而低效的 A cumbersome system or process is very complicated and inefficient.

① ...an old and cumbersome computer system...

过时并且低效的盘算机体系

② The proposed regulations are ill-defined and cumbersome and could be unnecessarily costly.

发起的规章制度论述不清、繁复低效，并且约莫会带来不必要的过高破费。