cumbrous

1 Mulholland's boys had hired a lot of old-fashioned cadet musquetoons, heavy and cumbrous, but they were marvellous weapons in the eyes of the lads.

2 Strange that he did not apply his knowledge of the one to the other, and that even to-day our timepieces are burdened with the old and cumbrous Roman numerals!

3 But madame informed me that this cumbrous ornament has now passed out of fashion, the tulle veil and orange flowers of French usage having generally taken its place.

4 It's astonishing how remote, cumbrous and expensive it makes 34 De Vere Gardens seem.

5 Both were men-of-war that moved forward slowly, cumbrously, as if in pain.

6 The single day-work yields sometimes only one penny or a little more, and the landlord is glad to exchange this cumbrous and cheap commodity for money-rents, even for small ones.

7 He has remnants of the old periphrases, the cumbrous mythological allusions, the poetical “properties” of French verse.

8 These structures are conspicuous from their ugliness; no grace or beauty is suggested. They consist of cumbrous stone slabs and pillars, set up in the stiffest manner possible.

这些牌坊因结构难看而显眼，没有任何优雅和美感可言。牌坊由块垒不平的石板和石柱构成，僵直地立在那里。

9 It was a cumbrous and yet cramped vehicle lined with clean striped cotton.

10 The Christian church, like the Jewish, rapidly degenerated into a tissue of legends and observances—at first representative of morality, soon cumbrous, finally inimical to it.

11 Without whose quickening glance their cumbrous orbs Were brute unlovely mass, inert and dead, And not, as now, the green abodes of life— How many forms of being wait on thee!

12 All this shows how crude and cumbrous an implement was the episcopal and legatine Inquisition even in the most energetic hands, and how formless and tentative was its procedure.

13 Then began the slow, painful, cumbrous method by which the law of the land requires military courts to extract their evidence, every question and answer being reduced to writing.

14 The Road Home Program, a state program supposed to help rebuild, was cumbrous and slow, and grants often didn’t cover the cost of repairs.

15 When supernatural means were not resorted to, the proceedings were far too cumbrous and uncertain to be efficient against an evil so widely spread and against malefactors so numerous.

16 The road was heavy and deeply rutted from the recent passage of cumbrous transport wagons and artillery.

17 "So I thought," responded Merrill; "to me there appeared something too absurd in conveying through the streets at night so cumbrous an instrument—carrying it on a hand-barrow, like porters."

18 Before the time of Watt, the steam engine was exclusively a steam pump—slow, cumbrous, wasteful of fuel, and very little used.

19 Unfortunately for himself, he has discovered that his collections, in this department, covered several hundred pages of manuscript, and that, if printed, they would render his volume too cumbrous.

20 It turns out that digital television, originally meant as a convenient alternative to clunky cable, can be just as knotty and cumbrous as the business it’s trying to replace.

1 累赘

redundant diffuse cumbersome burden encumbrance impedimenta one too many a white elephant burdensome lumbersome overburdensome drag diffusion impediment

2 难处理的

tender awkward reluctant cumbersome rebellious thorny unmanageable recalcitrant tricksy scabrous cross-grained lumbersome

3 沉重

massive weighty heavy-handed sullen ponderous leaden

4 沉重的

massive weighty heavy-handed sullen ponderous leaden

5 拖累的

cumbersome lumbersome

6 笨重

heavy bulky coarse cumbersome clumsy unwieldy hulking lumpish elephantine dull lumpy ponderous lumbersome thickness

7 讨厌

bad offensive horrible sticky unwanted foul rotten dreadful troublesome obnoxious objectionable hellish forbidding off-putting disagreeable ruddy odious loathsome damnable confounded troublous deuced ill-favored repulsion object bally unsonsy mean Nice evil terrible chronic unlikely painful ugly fierce unpleasant disgusting cumbersome hairy filthy pesky lousy hateful tacky unfavorable wretched horrid cursed bothersome tiresome nauseous rancid repulsive ungrateful abominable frightful accursed carrion unsavory yucky mothering insufferable detestable doggone unwholesome bawdy pissy elvish motherfucking unlovely mawkish noisome pestilential unpleasing pestilent importunate pestiferous perishing sodding dratted stinko plaguey loathly hateable snuffy disgustful lumbersome loathful plaguesome naffing cotton-picking sour bother bugger botheration dislike deformity damnation disrelish afraid cringe scunner bar have no time for get knotted be sour on no deal not very nice

8 拖累

cumbersome lumbersome involvement cumbrance cumber

9 讨厌的

bad offensive horrible sticky unwanted foul rotten dreadful troublesome obnoxious objectionable hellish forbidding off-putting disagreeable ruddy odious loathsome damnable confounded troublous deuced ill-favored bally unsonsy mean Nice evil terrible chronic unlikely painful ugly fierce unpleasant disgusting cumbersome hairy filthy pesky lousy hateful tacky unfavorable wretched horrid cursed bothersome tiresome nauseous rancid repulsive ungrateful abominable frightful accursed carrion unsavory yucky mothering insufferable detestable doggone unwholesome bawdy pissy elvish motherfucking unlovely mawkish noisome pestilential unpleasing pestilent importunate pestiferous perishing sodding dratted stinko plaguey loathly hateable snuffy disgustful lumbersome loathful plaguesome naffing cotton-picking sour not very nice

10 麻烦

mean tight uncomfortable ugly sticky messy lively cumbersome troublesome inconvenient pesky mischievous worrisome onerous bothersome laborious tiresome fiddly spiny untoward rattling fiddling niggling vexatious leaden persnickety pernickety plaguey trappy lumbersome matter trouble bother hassle firework inconvenience bandit displeasure hang-up botheration moil cumbrance inconveniency cross

11 麻烦的

mean tight uncomfortable ugly sticky messy lively cumbersome troublesome inconvenient pesky mischievous worrisome onerous bothersome laborious tiresome fiddly spiny untoward rattling fiddling niggling vexatious leaden persnickety pernickety plaguey trappy lumbersome

12 累赘的

redundant diffuse cumbersome burdensome lumbersome overburdensome

13 行动缓慢的

pokesy cumbersome tardy lumbersome snail-paced slow-footed

14 笨重的

heavy bulky coarse cumbersome clumsy unwieldy hulking lumpish elephantine lumpy ponderous lumbersome