lumbering

adj.

1. 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

1. N-UNCOUNT 木材；方材
   Lumber consists 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。
2. VERB （缓慢而笨拙地）挪动，移动
   If someone or something lumbers from 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. See that pile of lumbering by the barn?
   你看见谷仓旁的那堆木材吗？
5. Generally speaking, the lumbering brings the economic efficiency for the locality.
   总的来说，伐木业为当地带来经济效益。
6. 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。
7. There are forests here, and lumbering is important.
   这里有很多森林，因此伐木业很重要。
8. But I also knew how common it was for these lumbering giants to be gashed by boat propellers or entangled in crab traps.
   但我也知道，它们这些笨拙的海洋生物经常被船的螺旋桨划伤，或卷入捕蟹器中。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. Lumbering is very important in some underdeveloped countries.
    在一些不发达的国家，伐木业十分重要。
15. The purchase of armoured personnel carriers ( APCs) from Shaanxi Baoji Special Vehicles marked a departure from decades of reliance on China's lumbering state defence contractors.
    从陕西宝鸡专用汽车有限公司（ShaanxiBaojiSpecialVehicles）购买装甲人员输送车（APC），表明中国军队告别了数十年来依赖迟缓的国有国防承包商的历史。
16. In countries like China and India, fast-growing economies and foreign investors 'seemingly unquenchable desire to supply capital have offered both lumbering state monopolies and sleepy family-owned companies an unprecedented opportunity to expand their businesses and reform their governance.
    在中国、印度等国，增长迅猛的经济和外国投资者似乎持续高涨的投资热情，给庞大的国有企业和半睡半醒的家族式企业，带来了扩大经营和改善管理的空前发展机遇。
17. 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。
18. A heavy, lumbering trot.
    步子沉重、动作笨拙的慢跑。
19. 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。
20. Some readers may remain sceptical about the claims that the lumbering state-owned corporate sector is making large profits.
    一些读者或许仍对以下说法心怀疑虑：动作迟缓的国有企业部门正创造着巨额的利润。
21. Faults: Short, prancing or choppy gait, lumbering or rolling gait; crossing or crabbing.
    缺点（不合格）：步伐过短，跳跃或者起伏，笨拙或者摇摆的步态；横向行进或斜行。
22. 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。
23. In some instances natives have become fox breeders, and where private parties are so engaged they have supplemented their fox breeding by fishing, farming, or lumbering.
    在一些实例中，当地人已经成为狐狸养殖者，在那些地区这些人是很忙碌的，他们通过捕鱼，种植，伐木给狐狸补充食物。
24. In the fantasy world of online gaming a multinational corporation such as Sony would be a lumbering giant locked in a battle to the death with a nimble-footed hero.
    在线游戏的奇幻世界里，索尼（Sony）这样的跨国公司就像一个笨拙的巨人，正与身手敏捷的英雄展开殊死搏斗。
25. 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。
26. The mining industry was outpaced for a time by lumbering.
    矿业发展曾一度落在木材业之后。
27. 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。
28. Minnesota today is still a leader in farming, lumbering, and milling, as well as printing and iron production.
    现在的明尼苏达在农业、伐木业、碾制业，以及印刷与钢铁生产上还是居于美国各州之冠。

noun

1. the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber

adj

1. 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