词汇 | unwieldy |
释义 | unwieldy adjective uk /ʌnˈwiːl.di/ us /ʌnˈwiːl.di/ unwieldyadjective (DIFFICULT TO MOVE)An unwieldy object is difficult to move or handle because it is heavy, large, or a strange shape: (物体因沉重、庞大或形状奇特而)不灵便的,笨重的;难移动的 A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.钢琴是个很难搬下楼梯的物件。 Complicated and difficult to do advanced ambitious ambitiously another arduous formidable formidably get blood out of/from a stoneidiom grail gruelling onerous onerously overdemanding painstaking picnic toughen trickily tricky tuff ultra-sensitive You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Thick, dense and heavy unwieldyadjective (NOT EFFECTIVE)An unwieldy system is slow and not effective, usually because it is too big, badly organized, or involves too many different organizations or people: (因机构庞大或组织不善而)效率低下的,无效率的 One disadvantage for the bank is that its huge size - over 15,000 staff - makes it unwieldy and slow-moving.该银行的一大弊端是机构庞大——有15 000多名员工——造成效率低下及运营缓慢。 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unpractical unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unwieldy | American Dictionaryunwieldy adjective[ not gradable ] us/ʌnˈwil·di/ unwieldyadjective[not gradable] (DIFFICULT TO MOVE)(of an object) difficult to move or handle because it is heavy, large, or a strange shape unwieldyadjective[not gradable] (NOT EFFECTIVE)(of a system) difficult to manage, usually because it is too big or badly organized: an unwieldy bureaucracy Examples of unwieldyunwieldy The resulting type name is unwieldy, and code that must use it is likely to be cluttered and hard to read. On the whole, the book's structure is unwieldy and the organization is very weak. The unwieldy nature of the volume is partly mitigated by publishing in two parts. First, like all returnees, they had to deal with a large and unwieldy bureaucracy that paid little attention to the needs of individuals. The lower ontology (leaf attributes of each class and subclass) are not depicted because it would make the illustration unwieldy. Interestingly, despite the framework of category theory they base the development on many-sorted signatures, which makes the definitions somewhat unwieldy. Chemists are being inundated with an unwieldy and difficult-to-categorize superabundance of particulars. States changed to larger districts as their populations grew, towns multiplied, and their legislatures thus grew unwieldy. The representation of heaps is unwieldy mainly because ' ' is used in an argument position. The existence of one large and potentially unwieldy primary health care team is now largely discredited however. On the contrary, they are unwieldy and heavy objects. Moreover, the rapid growth of the nationalised sector quickly created an unwieldy monster. In practice, the structure proved unwieldy and divisive. I felt that the whole setup was becoming unwieldy, and it was clearly higher dimension than necessary. Like botanical nomenclature, names for animals were, for many centuries, inconsistent and often unwieldy. See all examples of unwieldy 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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