cumbersome的意思|cumbersome的解释-里氏词典

cumbersome ['kʌmbәsәm]

a. 笨重的, 麻烦的, 累赘的

An apparatus for lifting heavy or cumbersome objects.
起重机用来提举重物或难处理物体的设备
Clumsy or cumbersome.
不灵活的或妨碍的
This arrangement is cumbersome to manage.
如此安排繁琐得难以管理。

cumbersome

[ adj ]

difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

<adj.all>

a cumbersome piece of machinery

cumbrous protective clothing

not elegant or graceful in expression

<adj.all>

an awkward prose style

a clumsy apology

his cumbersome writing style

if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?

cumbersome \cum"ber*some\ (k?m"b?r-s?m), a.
1. Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag;
embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.

To perform a cumbersome obedience. --Sir. P.
Sidney.

2. Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or
machine.

He holds them in utter contempt, as lumbering,
cumbersome, circuitous. --I. Taylor.
-- {Cum"ber*some*ly}, adv. -- {Cum"ber*some*ness},n.

At best, they would be absurdly cumbersome to administer.
Having separate companies indirectly controlled by Montedison made "managing them more cumbersome," Mr. Harmon said.
Even within the company, few would now deny that its cumbersome management structure has hampered its ability to adapt to changing market conditions.
The new Fed is more cumbersome.
"Election procedures in the United States make voting cumbersome," the General Accounting Office tells Congress.
It would scrap the cumbersome structure that divides Siemens into seven autonomous operating groups and replace it with a flatter organization with significantly more operating groups.
Granted, very few true democracies _ in which everyone votes on everything _ exist in the world, simply because it is too cumbersome and inefficient.
This cumbersome event, with its 800 page agenda, was never likely to achieve anything of immediate significance.
The American money is being sought by the Soviet Union's Technology, Innovations, Production Co., which was recently set up to bypass the cumbersome Soviet bureaucracy and develop new technologies.
Such a deal would conveniently postpone the implementation of terms costly to Russia and cumbersome for Belarus.
The small-issuers exemption, called Regulation A, allows companies to raise funds without providing audited financial statements, which can be cumbersome and costly.
But they are more cumbersome than credit cards, so it is worth buying a few cheques for low amounts - Pounds 10 or Pounds 20. If you are in the US, dollar-denominated cheques change hands as easily as hard cash.
The commission also suggested that the FAA be freed from cumbersome government rules that hinder its ability to efficiently purchase modern equipment and deploy its air traffic controllers and other employees.
A cumbersome merger agreement calling for strictly equal treatment of Dai-Ichi and Kangyo constituencies made things worse.
'Our administration is still cumbersome to a degree, and we can make changes in the long term to save money,' he said. A second immediate problem has been the society's exposure to the southern housing market.
Several alliance officials say NATO's cumbersome internal bargaining process is becoming bogged down further as it strains to respond to Mr. Gorbachev's sweeping suggestions.
But this is cumbersome.
And even though the EC has stepped up efforts to coordinate its members' political positions toward Iraq, the cumbersome process hasn't been able to match the speed and clarity of statements and actions by individual members or by the U.S.
At the same time, however, he has managed to cut costs and crack down on absenteeism. He makes rapid decisions - using lessons picked up in the racing pits during quick-fire vehicle repairs - in stark contrast to GM's cumbersome bureaucracy.
Mr. Stroup notes that when regulations are the primary means of ensuring environmental quality, the effort is costly, cumbersome and divisive.
As long as U.S.-made chemicals keep coming, they don't need cumbersome and costly plants, equipment and scientific manpower to produce their own.
Though the latest federal budget provides for increased aid, "the rules are more cumbersome," he said in a telephone interview.
Natural gas is clean, plentiful and politically popular, but in Holland, where many cars use it, compressing it in cars' tanks is a cumbersome process, says BP.
The EC's 'financial perspectives' for 1988-92 has so far been revised five times through a cumbersome and time-consuming procedure.
They shouldn't also be the "victims" of a cumbersome drug-development process.
All other federal regulatory agencies are headed by just one boss, and the NRC's commission format has long come under fire from industry and Congress as too cumbersome.
Earlier methods of development were too complex and too cumbersome.
"I'm afraid the Investment Company Act has become cumbersome and outdated and even anti-competitive," Commissioner Philip Lochner said.
A previous version faded into dormancy in 1982 because traders were frustrated with its cumbersome delivery provisions.
The back-and-forth of flashback device is cumbersome, the expanded treatment of Norris's Mexican maid Maria as a comic nemesis figure likewise.

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