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词汇 ponderously
释义 ponderously
adverb
 formal mainly disapprovinguk /ˈpɒn.dər.əs.li/ us /ˈpɑːn.dɚ.əs.li/
in a way that is slow and awkward because of being very heavy or large: 笨重地;笨拙地
The old man walked ponderously along.老人步履沉重地走着。
He stood aside and the great vehicle moved ponderously out of the garage.他站在一旁,那辆巨型汽车笨重地驶出车库。
in a way that is boring because of being too slow, long, or serious: 严肃而乏味地,呆板地,生硬地
Every sentence is uttered ponderously, like a judge delivering a verdict.每一句话都说得严肃而呆板,就像法官在宣读判决书。
"We have not researched the phenomenon extensively," Mark replied ponderously. “我们还没有对这种现象进行大规模的研究,”马克生硬地回答道。
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ponderous
He arranged himself ponderously at the table.
He started to dance, lifting each foot ponderously from the floor like a performing elephant.
It could have been a ponderously serious evening, but it wasn't.
Even their response to miracles was ponderously cerebral.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thick, dense and heavy
blocky
cakey
chunkily
chunkiness
chunky
claggy
dense
densely
heavily
heaviness
heftily
hefty
high density
lumpen
thicken
thickening
thickly
thickness
ultra-heavy
weigh

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Tedious and uninspiring

Examples of ponderously


ponderously
There he finds not just individual tombs with an often ponderously ornate monumental architecture, making its potent statement about the worth of the deceased and his quality as an individual.
Heavily armored and nearly impervious to attack, his bulk also makes him ponderously slow.
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