单词 | unwieldy |
释义 | un·wieldy also un·wield·ly 1. obsolete < time the taste destroys, with sickness and unwieldy years — John Dryden > 2. a. < the increasingly unwieldy colonial organization — Marjory S. Douglas > < on the unwieldy circus train the going is tedious and filled with fits and starts — R.L.Taylor > b. < some of its rules are so unwieldy that many of the simplest things … are often the most difficult to prove — B.N.Cardozo > < brilliant hypotheses and all too often unwieldy ideas — D.M.Schneider > 3. a. < his unwieldy mouth wearing the jealous leer proper to his profession — Herbert Gold > < any word becomes unwieldy … when its spread of emotional sail overbalances the lead and oak that ought to carry cargo — Archibald MacLeish > b. < heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair — Moray Firth > < discourage unwieldy … corporate surpluses — F.D.Roosevelt > |
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