ponderous
ponderous 英 [ˈpɒndərəs] 美 [ˈpɑndərəs]
adj. 笨重的；沉闷的；呆板的 phrase. 比较级more ponderous 最高级most ponderous
- When you call Frankenstein ponderous, it's not because he likes to ponder the great questions of life. It's because he moves like a Mack truck, only slower and less gracefully.
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- adj. 笨重的；沉闷的；呆板的
- phrase. 比较级more ponderous 最高级most ponderous
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1. The fat woman’s movements were ponderous.
这个胖女人的体态很笨重。
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2. Headlines in the Onion, a spoof newspaper (“[Clinton] feels nation's pain, breasts”), would not be so funny if those in the New York Times were not so ponderous.
如果《纽约时报》的新闻标题不那么沉闷乏味的话，搞笑报刊《洋葱报》的头条（“[克林顿]感受到国家的痛苦，胸部”）也不会如此好笑。
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3. It’s debating — with ponderous slowness — whether maybe, possibly, it should consider trying to do something about the situation, one of these days.
它正在辩论——缓慢地思考——面对这种形势，有一天，它是否应该考虑努力有所作为，这是否有可能。
- ponderous (adj.) c. 1400, "thick;" early 15c., "heavy, weighty, clumsy," from Latin ponderosus "of great weight; full of meaning," from pondus (genitive ponderis) "weight," from stem of pendere "to hang, cause to hang; weigh" (from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin"). Meaning "tedious" is first recorded 1704. Related: Ponderously; ponderousness.
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