西瓜单词

cumbersome是什么意思

cumbersome

英 ['kʌmbəs(ə)m] 美 [ˈkʌmbərsəm]

cumbersome 大而笨重的

来自cumber,拖累。

cumbersome (adj.): late 14c., from cumber (v.) + -some (1). Meaning "unwieldy, hard to carry" is from 1590s. Related: Cumbersomely; cumbersomeness.

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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.