unwieldy

英 [ʌnˈwiːldi]

美 [ʌnˈwiːldi]

adj.  笨重的; 笨拙的; 不灵巧的; 难控制(或操纵、管理)的; 运转不灵的; 尾大不掉的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 笨重的；笨拙的；不灵巧的
  difficult to move or control because of its size, shape or weight
• 难控制（或操纵、管理）的；运转不灵的；尾大不掉的
  difficult to control or organize because it is very large or complicated

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 沉甸甸的；粗笨的；笨重的
  If you describe an object asunwieldy, you mean that it is difficult to move or carry because it is so big or heavy.
  1. They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
     他们提着笨重的行李气喘吁吁地来到他门口。
• ADJ-GRADED 臃肿的；庞大的
  If you describe a system asunwieldy, you mean that it does not work very well as a result of it being too large or badly organized.
  1. His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
     他的公司必须与俄罗斯庞大的官僚机构周旋。
  2. ...an unwieldy legal system.
     臃肿的法律体系

英英释义

adj

• lacking grace in movement or posture
  1. a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
  2. clumsy fingers
  3. what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
  4. heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
  Synonym:gawkyclumsyclunkyungainly
• difficult to work or manipulate
  1. unwieldy rules and regulations
• difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
  1. we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter
  2. almost dropped the unwieldy parcel
  Synonym:unmanageable

双语例句

• Drift tubes, however, are unwieldy.
  然而漂移管很笨重。
• This proves far too unwieldy for a universal means of payment.
  对于一种通用支付手段来说，事实证明这种处理方式太过笨拙。
• Often as tall as the archer, these bows have long range and power, but are unwieldy.
  通常跟弓箭手一样高，这些弓具有长射程，巨大的威力但是已经不实用了。
• Since the detailed expression is somewhat unwieldy we present it here in its general form.
  由于详细表达有点不实用，我们在这里提出了它的一般形式。
• Even a country as coolly efficient as Denmark has struggled to cope with such an unwieldy event.
  即使向丹麦这样沉着、高效的主办者，应付这样一次庞大规模的活动也十分吃力。
• But that's the point of having larger, but not unwieldy, team sizes.
  但是问题的关键是要具备大型的但并非是臃肿的团队规模。
• But that's a little unwieldy.
  但是这样有点笨拙。
• Even in the one unwieldy sentence quoted above, she makes three elementary mistakes.
  即使是上文引用的那个笨拙的长句中，切尔茜也犯了三个基本错误。
• They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
  他们提着笨重的行李气喘吁吁地来到他门口。
• As you can guess, this quickly consumes an unwieldy amount of memory.
  可以想像到，这会快速地消耗大量内存。