cumbersome [ˈkʌmbərsəm]
adj. difficult to handle especially because of size or weight: ponderous 笨重的/难以处理的
s. unwieldy, cumbrous, unhandy, slow-moving
词源 cumbersome 大而笨重的 来自cumber,拖累。
英文词源
cumbersome (adj.) late 14c., from cumber (v.) + -some (1). Meaning "unwieldy, hard to carry" is from 1590s. Related: Cumbersomely; cumbersomeness.
例句
1. 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。
2. Our Intelligence Service was untrained, cumbersome, and almost wholly ineffectual.
我们的情报部门人员缺乏训练，机构臃肿，简直毫无用处。
3. They're making efforts to streamline their normally cumbersome bureaucracy.
他们正努力精简本来繁冗复杂的官僚体制。
4. The organization changed its cumbersome title to something easier to remember.
这家机构把它那复杂累赘的名称改得好记一些了。
5. It's rather cumbersome having to carry all these cases around.
把这些箱子都带着走动是件相当麻烦的事.
英文释义:
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.
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.
