Ponderous
['pɒnd(ə)rəs] or ['pɑndərəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; 'a ponderous stone'; 'a ponderous burden'; 'ponderous weapons' .
(adj.) labored and dull; 'a ponderous speech' .
比琳达手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant.
(a.) Important; momentous; forcible.
(a.) Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke.
編輯:思朋斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Heavy, weighty, massive.
錄入:泽维尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Conscience, and honour, and the most despotic necessity dragged me apart from her, and kept me sundered with ponderous fetters. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The ponderous bolts grated into place. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Beds: Advance from the Ponderous Bedsteads of Former Times. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In England, Wheatstone and Cooke had introduced a ponderous magnetic needle telegraph. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I borrowed the ponderous pistols and snapped them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is a thousand feet long and two hundred wide, all of the most symmetrical, and at the same time the most ponderous masonry. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Egyptians, the Hebrews and the Chinese, and Oriental nations generally had locks and keys of ponderous size. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- All eyes were fixed upon him as he stood--ponderous of frame, sonorous of voice, and with a manner which, though not graceful, was impressive. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She was vast, ponderous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This crusher consists of two ponderous upright jaws, one fixed and the other movable, between which the stones or ores to be crushed are fed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- At the head of this assembly was a ponderous, dark-looking man, whose malign eye surveyed with gloating delight the stern looks of his followers. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying plough of prophecy passed harmless. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- From the making of a ponderous paper car wheel to a lady's delicate work basket, success has been attained. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The very horse he backs, could not have carried the ponderous weight of King Richard through a single course. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He was now in retirement, and hence (in a ponderous white cravat, like a stiff snow-drift) was so obliging as to shade the dinner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Even fear could not render that ponderous body so active. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The ponderous stone Bridge of Sighs crosses it at the second story--a bridge that is a covered tunnel --you can not be seen when you walk in it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Its ponderous mass, blackened stone, and high dome, made it look, not like a temple, but a tomb. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
錄入:泽维尔