cumbersome

英['kʌmbəsəm] 美['kʌmbərsəm]

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adj. (形容词)

Adjective:

difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight;
"a cumbersome piece of machinery"
"cumbrous protective clothing"
not elegant or graceful in expression;
"an awkward prose style"
"a clumsy apology"
"his cumbersome writing style"
"if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"

1. The proposed regulations are ill-defined and cumbersome and could be unnecessarily costly.: 提议的规章制度阐述不清、复杂低效，而且可能会带来不必要的过高花费。

2. Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.: 我们的情报部门人员缺乏训练，机构臃肿，简直毫无用处。

3. They're making efforts to streamline their normally cumbersome bureaucracy.: 他们正努力精简本来繁冗复杂的官僚体制。

4. The organization changed its cumbersome title to something easier to remember.: 这家机构把它那复杂累赘的名称改得好记一些了。

5. It's rather cumbersome having to carry all these cases around.: 把这些箱子都带着走动是件相当麻烦的事.

用作形容词 (adj.)

The grizzly bear looked cumbersome and awkward.
灰熊看上去又笨拙又迟钝。
This arrangement is cumbersome to manage.
如此安排繁琐得难以管理。
They are cumbersome on land, but stealthy and sleek in the water.
它们在陆地上行动笨拙但在水里却敏捷灵活。
A tabulation of a function of two variables is cumbersome, but possible.
二元函数的列表法是不方便的，然而是可能的。
Donated food can be used for projects only if it is distributed through cumbersome channels such as direct feeding or food-for-work programs.
赠送的粮食如用于项目，必须通过诸如直接供给或者以粮抵工规化等一些不方便的渠道进行分配。

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