unwieldy的意思|unwieldy的解释-里氏词典

unwieldy [,ʌn'wi:ldi]

a. 难处理的, 笨大难使用的, 笨拙的

unwieldy

[ adj ]

difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape

<adj.all>

we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter

almost dropped the unwieldy parcel

difficult to work or manipulate

<adj.all>

unwieldy rules and regulations

lacking grace in movement or posture

<adj.all>

a gawky lad with long ungainly legs

clumsy fingers

what an ungainly creature a giraffe is

heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair

Unwieldy \Un*wield"y\, a.
Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky;
ponderous. ``A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old.''
--Clarendon.
※ -- {Un*wield"i*ly}, adv. -- {Un*wield"i*ness},
n.

It's got a large and unwieldy cast, with a confusing setup of part-time hosts (Mr. Garagiola, for example, is just on Tuesdays to Thursdays) and none of them are what the show really needs.
But for brain tests, the unwieldy machines "would have required patients to stand on their heads," says Reginald Bickford, a researcher at the University of California at San Diego.
The fiasco over the scheduling of News at Ten highlights in technicolour the unwieldy operation of the ITV network.
That no bid has yet emerged suggests how difficult it is to make the sums stack up. As an unwieldy conglomerate attempting to rationalise too late, Borden has been left with too many products commanding small market shares.
But few are entirely satisfied by the act's unwieldy compromise between righting the past and encouraging new investment. Former owners and their direct descendants will have 90 days to make a claim.
"Near-Neanderthal tools," an unwieldy product mix and work rules that inflate production costs also work against the company, he said.
As the 1980s takeover era has shown, that kind of unwieldy, inefficient performance invites unsolicited offers from investors who see profit in selling a company in pieces.
Although there were plans to privatise it en bloc, WAPDA is now seen as too unwieldy for such a sale. All this is music to businessmens' ears.
Foreign businesses are still deterred by an unwieldy two-tier foreign exchange rate, and political liberalisation remains firmly off the agenda.
Many Filipinos believe the structure Mrs. Aquino set up early in her administration is too unwieldy to work, regardless of who is president.
Earlier this year, a City of Los Angeles task force called the board "unwieldy due to excessive size" and "unsatisfactory" in organizational structure, long-range planning and community-relations programs.
It will streamline an unwieldy system that assessed different industries at different rates for a family subsidy program.
The Soviets can change their positions much faster than the unwieldy alliance, and if the experts are correct that Mr. Gorbachev wants an INF treaty, he may have to make the last moves to get one.
Stabilising the macro-economic environment and reforming an unwieldy and disintegrated public service are critical in attracting the huge sums required to implement the government's reconstruction plans.
The NHS currently resembles a huge conglomerate in which slimmed-down subsidiaries are struggling to reform an unwieldy head office. Mrs Bottomley set up the review to examine management structure and allied issues.
If the unwieldy contraptions collide and tip, or hit outriders, horses can tumble to the ground and competitors can get trampled.
In January, the Economics Ministry scrapped its unwieldy screening of foreign investment applications to try to speed development of an economy that grew only 1.9% last year.
With this would come the power to take decisions, which at present lies with an unwieldy 14-company structure. Talks between Carlton and Central began on Wednesday, the day the proposed rule change was announced.
But an editorial accompanying the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association said hair analysis is unreliable and unwieldy.
Perhaps this valiant battle against weakness and an unwieldy program seemed longer and more effortful because time had not flown by at "Aida," which opened the season the night before.
Another major interest to the Senate will be Mr. Gates' views on reorganizing the huge, unwieldy intelligence community, which hasn't had a fundamental overhaul since it was established in the late 1940s.
No longer able to afford its sensational site, it has moved to the unwieldy and acoustically unflattering Civic Auditorium in depressing downtown Santa Cruz.
But, say students of European takeovers, the important thing is that in any of these three cases, the current Generale de Belgique management will lose and the restructuring of the unwieldy company will be accelerated.
"If I had five guys with magnetometers and lined them up we'd find it," he said. "But (with 200 volunteers) it's too unwieldy. None of them have ever worked together before." The search was to be completed on Sunday.
Otherwise it would be too unwieldy to set the gold price, he says.
Mr Brian Shaw, general manager and actuary, said the unwieldy share price of more than Pounds 13 might deter private investors, although it would have little effect on institutions.
Under Kabaidze's earthy language and punchy delivery lurked a serious critique of Soviet problems, including the unwieldy bureaucracy and inefficient economy about which Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev so often complains.
Australia have hired him. These sports are run by unwieldy committees made up largely of non-sportsmen or people who played the game 20 years ago.
Such rapid growth is making current methods for collecting and distributing data seem unwieldy, and will likely force the genome researchers to invent new ways to communicate with one another.
But it had losses totalling CDollars 140m in four of the past five years. The outside investors' disquiet centres on Dylex's unwieldy 18-member board, most of whom are members of the Posluns family, their advisers and senior Dylex managers.

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