unwieldy

英 [ʌnˈwiːldi]

美 [ʌnˈwiːldi]

adj.  笨重的; 笨拙的; 不灵巧的; 难控制(或操纵、管理)的; 运转不灵的; 尾大不掉的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 笨重的；笨拙的；不灵巧的
  difficult to move or control because of its size, shape or weight
• 难控制（或操纵、管理）的；运转不灵的；尾大不掉的
  difficult to control or organize because it is very large or complicated

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 沉甸甸的；粗笨的；笨重的
  If you describe an object asunwieldy, you mean that it is difficult to move or carry because it is so big or heavy.
  1. They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
     他们提着笨重的行李气喘吁吁地来到他门口。
• ADJ-GRADED 臃肿的；庞大的
  If you describe a system asunwieldy, you mean that it does not work very well as a result of it being too large or badly organized.
  1. His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
     他的公司必须与俄罗斯庞大的官僚机构周旋。
  2. ...an unwieldy legal system.
     臃肿的法律体系

英英释义

adj

• lacking grace in movement or posture
  1. a gawky lad with long ungainly legs
  2. clumsy fingers
  3. what an ungainly creature a giraffe is
  4. heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair
  Synonym:gawkyclumsyclunkyungainly
• difficult to work or manipulate
  1. unwieldy rules and regulations
• difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape
  1. we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter
  2. almost dropped the unwieldy parcel
  Synonym:unmanageable

双语例句

• Since the detailed expression is somewhat unwieldy we present it here in its general form.
  由于详细表达有点不实用，我们在这里提出了它的一般形式。
• OK, the bed may be too unwieldy or expensive to replace.
  好吧，换张床有可能太费手脚或者太贵了。
• His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
  他的公司必须与俄罗斯庞大的官僚机构周旋。
• But the O ( 1) scheduler became unwieldy in the kernel.
  但是O（1）调度器在内核中很笨拙。
• This is kind of an unwieldy problem.
  这是个有些难以处理的问题。
• But that's the point of having larger, but not unwieldy, team sizes.
  但是问题的关键是要具备大型的但并非是臃肿的团队规模。
• Even in the one unwieldy sentence quoted above, she makes three elementary mistakes.
  即使是上文引用的那个笨拙的长句中，切尔茜也犯了三个基本错误。
• Also, if a change is required that affects multiple operations within a Web service ( such as a change to a data type shared by multiple operations) versioning by operation can quickly become unwieldy.
  另外，如果要求进行影响Web服务中的多个操作的变更（如对多个操作共享的数据类型进行更改），按操作进行版本控制可能很快导致整个服务变得非常笨重。
• They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.
  他们提着笨重的行李气喘吁吁地来到他门口。
• One drawback to solar-generated electricity is the unwieldy panels, which look out of place on a traditional home.
  可知，笨拙的面板是太阳能发电的一个缺陷，因为它看上去与传统的房屋结构不相称，故选。