unwieldyの意味・使い方・発音

unwieldy

英 [ʌn'wiːldɪ] 美 [ʌn'wildi]

unwieldy: unwieldy: [14] Unwieldy originally meant ‘weak, feeble’ (‘a toothless, old, impotent, and unwieldy woman’, Reginald Scot, Discovery of Witch-craft 1584). The meaning ‘awkward to handle’ developed in the 16th century. The word was based on the now seldom encountered wieldy, which evolved from Old English wielde ‘active, vigorous’. This in turn went back to the Germanic base *walth- ‘have power’, source also of English herald and wield.
=> herald, wield
unwieldy (adj.): late 14c., "lacking strength, powerless," from un- (1) "not" + obsolete wieldy, from Old English wielde "active, vigorous," from Proto-Germanic *walth- "have power" (see wield (v.)). Meaning "moving ungracefully" is recorded from 1520s; in reference to weapons, "difficult to handle, awkward by virtue of size or shape" it is attested from 1540s. Related: Unwieldiness.

1. They came panting up to his door with their unwieldy baggage.: 彼らは重い荷物を持って息を切らして彼の入り口に来た。

2.His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.: 彼の会社はロシアの巨大な官僚機構と渡り合わなければならない。

4.Her two guns were too unwieldy for accurate shoting.

彼女の2つの火砲は非常に重く、操作が難しく、正確な射撃ができない。dd>

実際の計算に使用するのは面倒です。