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cumbersome adj.笨重的；不方便的 (1) 灰熊看上去又笨拙又迟钝。(2) 它们在陆地上行动笨拙但在水里却敏捷灵活。(3) 二元函数的列表法是不方便的，然而是可能的。(4) 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。 A "cumber" is something that slows you down, and though the words aren't related, "lumber" includes big pieces of heavy wood, which might slow down the person carrying them. Moving lumber is cumbersome, because it's a heavy and awkward job. Getting your laundry down the stairs or putting a Rottweiler in the bathtub can be cumbersome too.

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英 ['kʌmbəsəm] 美 ['kʌmbərsəm] (1) The grizzly bear looked cumbersome and awkward.(2) They are cumbersome on land, but stealthy and sleek in the water.(3) A tabulation of a function of two variables is cumbersome, but possible.(4) Donated food can be used for projects only if it is distributed through cumbersome channels such as direct feeding or food-for-work programs. You have to wrestle a bit with the longish word cumbersome; it's cumbersome, or kind of long and clumsy, to tumble out in a sentence. It's hard to use it gracefully. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]大而笨重的；难以携带的 Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle. Although the machine looks cumbersome, it is actually easy to use.尽管这台机器看上去很笨重，操作起来却很容易。...muffled up in thick and cumbersome clothing.身上裹着厚重的衣服2[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]复杂而低效的 A cumbersome system or process is very complicated and inefficient. ...an old and cumbersome computer system...过时而且低效的计算机系统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。

英语单词	cumbersome
英美音标	英 ['kʌmbəsəm] 美 ['kʌmbərsəm]
中文释义	adj.笨重的；不方便的
英语例句	(1) The grizzly bear looked cumbersome and awkward. (2) They are cumbersome on land, but stealthy and sleek in the water. (3) A tabulation of a function of two variables is cumbersome, but possible. (4) Donated food can be used for projects only if it is distributed through cumbersome channels such as direct feeding or food-for-work programs.
中文例句	(1) 灰熊看上去又笨拙又迟钝。 (2) 它们在陆地上行动笨拙但在水里却敏捷灵活。 (3) 二元函数的列表法是不方便的，然而是可能的。 (4) 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。
vocabulary简明	You have to wrestle a bit with the longish word cumbersome; it's cumbersome, or kind of long and clumsy, to tumble out in a sentence. It's hard to use it gracefully.
vocabulary扩展	A "cumber" is something that slows you down, and though the words aren't related, "lumber" includes big pieces of heavy wood, which might slow down the person carrying them. Moving lumber is cumbersome, because it's a heavy and awkward job. Getting your laundry down the stairs or putting a Rottweiler in the bathtub can be cumbersome too.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]大而笨重的；难以携带的 Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle. Although the machine looks cumbersome, it is actually easy to use. 尽管这台机器看上去很笨重，操作起来却很容易。 ...muffled up in thick and cumbersome clothing. 身上裹着厚重的衣服 2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]复杂而低效的 A cumbersome system or process is very complicated and inefficient. ...an old and cumbersome computer system... 过时而且低效的计算机系统 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。

Cumbersome Heavy Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 英 Kʌmbəsəm] 美 Kʌmbərsəm Adj.笨重的；不方便的

Cumbersome Heavy Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词英 Kʌmbəsəm] 美 Kʌmbərsəm Adj.笨重的；不方便的