cumbrous

cumbrous

1. A person who dews not deliberately dimples of all his thoughts alike in cumbrous draperies and flimsy disguises may strike out twenty varieties of familiar everyday language, each coming somewhat nearer to the feeling he wants to convey,

一个人写文章，只要会从熟悉的日常用语中想一二十种说法，这种语言更接近他所要表达的情感，

2. protective equipment makes satellites cumbrous and more expensive;

保护装置让卫星更复杂，也更昂贵；

3. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where centres of labor should exist.

修院在一个国家，如果发展过多，它便成了行动的累赘，绊脚的机构，它应是劳动的中心却成为懒惰的中心。

4. The men she knew seemed cumbrous compared to him.

所有她认识的男人与他相比都显得笨手笨脚。

5. plucking words and meanings from the cumbrous air.

采摘的话和意义从笨重的空气。