Ponderous

(adj.) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; 'a ponderous stone'; 'a ponderous burden'; 'ponderous weapons' .

(adj.) labored and dull; 'a ponderous speech' .

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• 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. 雪莉.
• The ponderous bolts grated into place. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Beds: Advance from the Ponderous Bedsteads of Former Times. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In England, Wheatstone and Cooke had introduced a ponderous magnetic needle telegraph. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I borrowed the ponderous pistols and snapped them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is a thousand feet long and two hundred wide, all of the most symmetrical, and at the same time the most ponderous masonry. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was vast, ponderous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying plough of prophecy passed harmless. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• The very horse he backs, could not have carried the ponderous weight of King Richard through a single course. 沃尔特·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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Even fear could not render that ponderous body so active. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Its ponderous mass, blackened stone, and high dome, made it look, not like a temple, but a tomb. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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