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

• See that pile of lumbering by the barn?
  你看见谷仓旁的那堆木材吗？
• The exploitative activities of this region include farming, lumbering and mining.
  这地区的开发活动包括农业、木材业及矿业。
• The mining industry was outpaced for a time by lumbering.
  矿业发展曾一度落在木材业之后。
• 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。
• 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。
• Lumbering and, later, paper-making were carried out in smaller cities.
  木材业和后来的造纸都由较小的城市经营。
• A heavy, lumbering trot.
  步子沉重、动作笨拙的慢跑。
• And between the cups and saucers arranged for breakfast, and the lumbering deal table, a very clean white cloth was spread.
  一张非常清洁的白台布已经铺在一张粗糙的松木餐桌上，上面摆好了早餐的杯盘。
• 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。
• Before long, people's excessive and random lumbering, make the ecological balance of the nature destroyed.
  曾几何时，人们乱砍乱伐，使大自然的生态平衡遭到了破坏。