| 词汇 | example_english_ponderous |
| 释义 | Examples of ponderousThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. They are overwhelmed with the details of their work, and complexities of the machinery of this ponderous organisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have thought that, apart from other objections, that would have been extremely cumbersome and ponderous machinery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You cannot cope with such a situation by the slow, ponderous processes of the law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must wait while the machine functions in its own ponderous ways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apart from the usual ponderous phrases and evasiveness, the answer was zero. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sorry if that phrase sounds a little ponderous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Last year, this lumbering, ponderous body could produce only six reports. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many trade associations criticised the inadequacy, the ponderous nature and the unfairness of the old arrangements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that it was untidy, ponderous and slow but was the best thing we had. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can well imagine the sort of language used by a driver if he has to go through a ponderous and pointless exercise like this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think this would be an unnecessarily ponderous and provocative action at this particular moment of time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The nationalisation of the gas industry is, in the columns of some of our more ponderous newspapers, regarded as a foregone conclusion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The machinery is ponderous and it has, as yet, made no impression upon the situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking about ponderous and difficult vehicles, travelling at about 20 miles an hour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it really necessary to have such ponderous buildings for the assembling of files? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Small innovative groups have often produced chips that have been taken up by other small micromanufacturers rather than by slow, ponderous and big research efforts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want ponderous reviews or any lengthy reconsideration of the matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clause 1 deals with de-indexation—a rather ponderous and nasty word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To use a homely analogy, fission is like an elderly couple who have been married for many years—heavy, slightly ponderous—a heavy atom. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anybody who has had anything to do with it knows how slow and ponderous the system is just now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As far as land and buildings are concerned, it is the nature of transactions to be ponderous and slow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that the provision was ponderous and heavy-handed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has now come into being a new imponderable, in itself so ponderous as almost to obliterate all the pre-conceived notions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are very often extremely helpful, and such courses can easily be organised otherwise than by a ponderous national training board. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are a reiteration of a whole number of cliches, which make them very ponderous indeed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Along that road alone can we lighten the ponderous burden of armaments, keep our commitments to reasonable limits and enter the paths of peace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think he said that they might be regarded as ponderous and elaborate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say it because the whole thrust of the social package is backwards towards the ponderous tripartite structure of the corporate state. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the problem for them is that computer communications is structured, regulated and ponderous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that it will be possible for the matter to be resolved without all the ponderous consequences of debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not the present system for dealing with this type of trouble altogether too cumbersome and ponderous? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ponderous procedures and the enormous overheads connected with the programmes deny many small businesses the chance of getting any money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have had extraordinarily ponderous elephantine administrative manoeuvres merely to reach the present position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The machinery which is needed in the various countries to implement this proposal, although it is an improvement, is pretty ponderous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was the old bluster, the old boastfulness, the old booming voice, the deliberate hesitation, the cheerless smile, the ponderous repetition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we have before us is a ponderous piece of legislation, accompanied by slick slogans. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The machinery is too ponderous and slow, and is not efficient at the present time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No longer was there the wiry pony, but the ponderous shire horse was evolved to carry the knight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think this is unnecessarily ponderous and it is putting into an administrative law a criminal element which is entirely unnecessary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The upgrading of low grade energy—and that is what we have in the case of wave energy—needs ponderous and expensive apparatus. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clearly, we are glad to hear that there is to be inter-operability and compatibility, however much we may dislike those rather ponderous words. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We commend testing and in-course assessment, which should be much less ponderous than that at present prescribed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I merely make the point that we thought it was a very ponderous machinery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He then went on to give us one of his ponderous pronouncements about inflation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 None of us here can go through such ponderous documents as this with the care and attention which we should like. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They involve long, ponderous consultations which are often unsuccessful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not people who need to dash about like scalded rabbits saving every second; most are rather quiet and ponderous people who consider matters quite carefully. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You do not stop war or any of these horrors of human nature by those technical arguments, and cheap debating points, and the use of ponderous evasiveness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Hazarding usually results from momentary uncertainty or indecision, and it has always seemed to me to be wrong that the ponderous courts martial procedure should be invoked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is also a considerable market, if that is the right word, for heavy, sometimes ponderous, serious current affairs programmes which deal with matters in a thoroughly responsible manner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Over 2,000 of the 5,000 now operating employ fewer than 20 men, and these small units with their varying conditions are not suitable for a ponderous system of management. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Statute law moves at a ponderous pace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The decision on discharge must not be too ponderous or broad in scope, and it should not lead to a situation in which no one dares to give discharge. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The aircraft will be procured as an airliner is procured by an airline rather than in the more ponderous way in which we have tended to procure military aircraft. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To require the normal procedures, involving sending notification to neighbours and inviting and considering objections, was thought to be far too ponderous and, indeed, unnecessary for a short-term activity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He gave a very placid, and rather ponderous review of facts; a nice historical survey, but there was no attempt properly to analyse the difficulties of industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whether it turns out to be ponderous depends on the nature of the court, but it is proper that it should be searching, as our courts established. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hasten to add that there is nothing ponderous or over-shadowing about my noble friend—well, not for those of us who are over six feet tall! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He spoke in the recent debate about being described as a slow and ponderous sheepdog, but to me his performance was more like the aimless wandering of a sheep. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The outer movements contain both brilliance and academic pedantry, and the slow movement is not generally well regarded, sometimes being described as ponderous and boring. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, their ponderous equipment made progress slow, and the terrain was difficult. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Makinson comments that his poetry was ponderous, lacked humour and was somewhat coarse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In those ponderous moments we almost lose sight of our quirky heroine, who (refreshingly) is anything but. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Various causes of mainline decline have been cited, including monotonous and ponderous liturgies, intimidating worship surroundings, and too much tradition. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Print media came into being as a solution to the problem of the sluggish and ponderous task of transcribing written materials by hand. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They rely on ponderous vehicles and slow-firing heavy weaponry, foregoing mobility and tactical flexibility for heavy armour and superior firepower. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sibleys ponderous column proceeded very slowly northwestward, hampered by drought, heat, and a lack of potable water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The earlier examples of this manner are tolerably ponderous and simple. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His novels, though written in a ponderous, affected style, display considerable imagination and insight into character. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The large, ponderous, shell has a conical shape, appearing subperforate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A hill by the village contains the remains of an old fort, its summit being encircled with walls made of ponderous masses of rock. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She complained of the film's long, dry stretches and that the plot was too ponderous and uninteresting for the film's visual sweep. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Balzac is painstakingly concerned with scene-setting, which is not ponderous but exceedingly minute. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The farmhouses built during this period are large, square, hipped-roof structures with ponderous cornices and large porches to match. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The success of the work was marked, despite a ponderous style. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, he criticized the ponderous poetics... and platitudes for being mistaken as depth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The cars were ponderous handlers because of the heavy engine, but successful runners. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The large, ponderous, solid, imperforate shell has a conical shape. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The offside rule makes it complicated and ponderous. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Croo seems to have worked by adapting and editing older material, while adding his own rather ponderous and undistinguished verse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The too-sleek production and ponderous, stretched-out tempos don't help. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is prone to comically severe mood swings, alternately hyper-active and ponderous. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are slow, ponderous, and deliberate, in both thought and deed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The increasing density of their relentlessly downcast music, augmented by occasional electronic noises, begins to feel ponderous. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The writing was criticized as ponderous, and having familiar, conventional plots. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is like a mechanical musical doll that will perform a ponderous dance when someone turns the dial. The breathless plot developments of the crime and courtroom drama are highly fictionalized allusions to the ponderous workings of the law. The prose is heavy with jargon, and some of the analysis is also rather ponderous, not to say redundant. Is it to impress their readers, or themselves, that lexicographers so often seem to feel the need to be pompous and ponderous? The solution to the problems created by the legacy of intervention and ponderous bureaucracies is to be found in the new public management. Where this assessment is incorrect, the result might be described as a ponderous or patronising style. Details of dress and facial features are simplified and ponderous. British military reaction had been too slow and ponderous to command respect in the politico-military environment of the post-war world. The first part of the production, for instance, is too slow and ponderous in its exposition, perhaps not all of it necessary, for the faster, at times gripping, second part. In fact, if a speaker or a writer fills in too many details, we are likely to accuse him or her of being ponderous and boring. A ponderous mass of archival material has accumulated in my cellar, two thousand miles away, but it is merely a dense fog obscuring the heart and pain of it all. Really, it does not sound at all as if we are discussing a liberal market economy, but a rather bureaucratic and ponderous economy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Their working methods are archaic, comprising ponderous paper exercises with documents and rubber stamps that are easily forged. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We must therefore create credible regulations that are neither too ponderous and bureaucratic nor, however, too lightweight. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, it shows how ponderous and cumbersome our administrative procedures are. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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