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

• But the O ( 1) scheduler became unwieldy in the kernel.
  但是O（1）调度器在内核中很笨拙。
• Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
  我们的房子是如此不便的财产以至于我们常常被它所束缚而非居住。
• This is kind of an unwieldy problem.
  这是个有些难以处理的问题。
• Even a country as coolly efficient as Denmark has struggled to cope with such an unwieldy event.
  即使向丹麦这样沉着、高效的主办者，应付这样一次庞大规模的活动也十分吃力。
• If your site is large and unwieldy, you may need to reorganize its physical layout into simpler mini-sites.
  如果您的站点庞大而且笨拙，您可能需要将其物理布局重新组织为比较简单的迷你站点。
• 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。
• An overhaul of Greece's corrupt and unwieldy tax administration has been delayed.
  彻底改变希腊腐败和混乱的税收管理的计划已经被延期。
• This proves far too unwieldy for a universal means of payment.
  对于一种通用支付手段来说，事实证明这种处理方式太过笨拙。
• 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。
• Also, if the application has been around for a while the architecture can become unwieldy.
  同样，如果应用程序暂时遍布很多地方，那么其架构将是笨拙的。