lumbering

英 [ˈlʌmbərɪŋ]

美 [ˈlʌmbərɪŋ]

adj.  缓慢吃力的; 步态笨拙的
v.  缓慢吃力地移动; 笨拙地行进; 迫使担负(职责等)
lumber的现在分词

现在分词：lumbering　

TOEFL

BNC.19757 / COCA.17919

牛津词典

adj.

• 缓慢吃力的；步态笨拙的
  moving in a slow, heavy and awkward way
  1. a lumbering dinosaur
     迈着缓慢而沉重步子的恐龙

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 木材；方材
  Lumberconsists of trees and large pieces of wood that have been roughly cut up.
  1. It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it...
     其制作材料是软木，看起来像是云杉。
  2. He was going to have to purchase all his lumber at full retail price.
     他将不得不把所有木材按零售价分文不少地买下来。
• VERB （缓慢而笨拙地）挪动，移动
  If someone or somethinglumbersfrom one place to another, they move there very slowly and clumsily.
  1. He turned and lumbered back to his chair...
     他转过身来，蹒跚着走回到椅子边坐下。
  2. The truck lumbered across the parking lot toward the road...
     卡车隆隆地驶过停车场准备上路。
  3. He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.
     他眼睛直视前方，加速超过了前面一辆慢吞吞行进的大卡车。

英英释义

noun

• the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber

adj

• slow and laborious because of weight
  1. the heavy tread of tired troops
  2. moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
  3. ponderous prehistoric beasts
  4. a ponderous yawn
  Synonym:heavyponderous

双语例句

• He heard the carts go lumbering by upon the neighbouring streets, but they were far off, and only buzzed upon his ear.
  他听见邻近的街上运货马车沉重地驶过，但是听上去相隔很远。传到他的耳朵里只有微弱的嗡嗡声。
• Compare the Soviet armed forces, lumbering and expensive, with the nimble military of Russia today.
  当年苏联军队笨重、耗资巨大，相比之下，如今俄罗斯军队灵活精悍。
• Simultaneously, a rotation system is in place for lumbering bases so as to help restore vegetation.
  同时，对采伐基地进行及时更新，恢复森林植被。
• In the distance, we could see a herd of elephants lumbering across the plain.
  我们看到在远处，一群大象正缓步穿越平原。
• After Massachusetts, a semester in Ohio; and a return to Washington only to sell up, take a last swim, and drive north, in the early September swelter, in our lumbering U-Haul.
  继马萨诸塞之后，我们在俄亥俄州住了一学期；然后回到华盛顿，只是为了卖掉房产，游了最后一次泳，而后，在闷热的九月上旬，开着从搬家公司U-Haul租来的笨拙卡车北上。
• Third, the lumbering legal system, which imposes huge costs on the companies that use it, must be overhauled.
  第三，必须彻底改革臃肿的司法体系。该体系让使用它的公司承担了巨大的成本。
• Northeast Asia is increasingly integral to the global economy and its economic development is critical to sustaining even lumbering global growth.
  东北亚地区对全球经济越来越不可或缺，这一地区的经济发展对于支撑哪怕是低速的全球增长至关重要。
• Far from being heavy, lumbering and clumsy, pregnant women are often fascinating, beautiful and serene, according to the artistic director of one British ballet company.
  在英国一家芭蕾舞公司的艺术指导看来，孕妇并不粗笨、迟缓、笨拙，相反，她们经常十分漂亮迷人、宁静安详。
• Our immediate reaction was to paint the comical picture of a lumbering elephant running from a little mouse.
  我们的第一反应，应该是在脑海中浮现出一幅图画，上面有一只笨重的大象被一只小老鼠追着跑。
• A heavy, lumbering trot.
  步子沉重、动作笨拙的慢跑。